When you read, do not be content with turning the pages, but review the same passage twice, three times, or more in order to understand well all its significance. Reading too quickly is like storm rains that fall violently and flow away without giving the earth time to become moistened and are therefore useless or not very useful to it. Spiritual reading must rather imitate gentle rain, which falls slowly, penetrates to the depths of the earth and fertilizes the soil.
–Saint Ephrem of Syria (c. 306 – 373)
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