"To draw good from reading the lives of the Saints and other spiritual books, we ought not to read merely for information and skimmingly [randomly?], but little by little with pauses. When we feel ourselves moved to devotion on one or another point, we ought not to pass on, but to stop and to remain with that inspiration of the Spirit that is stirring us, and then when we perceive it no longer, to continue our reading."

Saint Philip Neri, Maxims and Counsels.