In order to keep everyone up to date on my curious meanderings and readings, I've decided to compile a highlight reel of sorts from the various things I read in a week.
Welcome to Thursday Backpack Quotes!
Quotes of the Week:
Every story is the sound of a storyteller, begging to stay alive. (Everythings Sad is Untrue: A True Story by Daniel Nayeri, p. 59)
If we become addicted to the external, our interiority will haunt us. We will become hungry with a hunger no image, person, or deed can still. To be wholesome, we must remain truthful to our vulnerable complexity. In order to keep our balance, we need to hold the interior and exterior, visible and invisible, known and unknown, temporal and eternal, ancient and new, together. (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom by John O'Donohue, p. xxii)
Each one of us is doomed and privileged to be an inner artist who carries and shapes a unique world. (Ibid., p. xxii)
[Speaking of the sluggard in Proverbs] His life is chaotic, because his soul is chaotic. (Do More Better: A Practical Guide to Productivity by Tim Challies, p. 20)
Jesus came untouched by the original sin that distorts, the actual sin that distracts, and the indwelling sin that manipulates. (The Gospel Comes with a House Key: Practicing Radically Ordinary Hospitality in our Post-Christian World by Rosaria Butterfield, p. 29)
And sometimes I am sorry when the grass Is growing over the stones in quiet hollows And the cocksfoot leans across the rutted cart-pass That I am not the voice of country fellows Who now are standing by some headland talking Of turnips and potatoes or young corn Of turf banks stripped for victory. Here Peace is still hawking His coloured combs and scarves and beads of horn. Upon a headland by a whinny hedge A hare sits looking down a leaf-lapped furrow There's an old plough upside-down on a weedy ridge And someone is shouldering home a saddle-harrow. Out of that childhood country what fools climb To fight with tyrants Love and Life and Time?
Recommendations and Reviews:
I'm almost done listening to Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh by Thomas S. Kidd. If you like History, then this was a very interesting, enjoyable and often disturbing read. It gets 5 stars from me!
I also just finished the classic Celebration of Discipline: The Path to Spiritual Growth by Richard Foster. There is so much good stuff in this book! I wouldn't necessarily give this to a new believer, but for a Christian looking to grow into greater conformity to Jesus then this book will unquestionably benefit your whole self. I give it 4 out of 5 stars!
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