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The story of Christmas is this: the tree is not dead. A shoot will live and grow. And grow and grow and grow.
“We read because without books our world shrinks our empathy thins and our liberty wanes. We read for the same reason that people have read and shared poems or stories for thousands of years, because our eyes are not enough by which to see.”
― Reading for the Love of God
― Reading for the Love of God
“The Gospel of Jesus Christ contains incomparable power to dignify those the world ignores. The last thing the disadvantaged need is a press release that reads "Behold, I bring you great news of great joy that will be for all the peoples. God helps those who help themselves." The Gospel is infinitely better news. Give the self-help thing to the poor and you are going to destroy them. Give the Gospel to the poor and you are doing to transform them.”
― Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel
― Tim Keller on the Christian Life: The Transforming Power of the Gospel
“You can find community at a bar. You can find self-realization in therapy. You can find tradition in Nepal. You can find wholesomeness in Utah. You can find political exhortation…well…everywhere. What you find in the Christian faith that you can’t find elsewhere…the big relief of God’s saving grace. Which is to say the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Grace is the most important, most urgent, and most radical contribution Christianity has to make to the life of the world.”
― The Big Relief: The Urgency of Grace for a Worn-Out World
― The Big Relief: The Urgency of Grace for a Worn-Out World
“Great books wield this power. Far beyond simple means of entertainment, well-told stories are instruments for the shaping of minds and hearts. Books that linger in the imagination offer virtues that we can grasp, savor, and turn in our hands. They form our first concepts in bold brushstrokes of what it means to be courageous, heroic, and good. And in the best circumstances, the tales tucked onto our shelves point to the most magnificent story of all: the story of a hope that endures in the face of the deepest darkness.”
― Stories Woven in Silver: Pointing Kids to the Gospel Through Children's Literature
― Stories Woven in Silver: Pointing Kids to the Gospel Through Children's Literature
“There are some Statues that I love more than the rest. The Woman carrying a Beehive is one. Another - perhaps the Statue that I love above all others - stands at a Door between the Fifth and Fourth North-Western Halls. It is the Statue of a Faun, a creature half-man and half-goat, with a head of exuberant curls. He smiles slightly and presses his forefinger to his lips. I have always felt that he meant to tell me something or perhaps to warn me of something: Quiet! he seems to say. Be careful! But what danger there could possibly be I have never known. I dreamt of him once; he was standing in a snowy forest and speaking to a female child”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
Zach’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Zach’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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815 friends
448 books
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1,080 friends
382 books
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113 friends
280 books
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32 friends
268 books
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100 friends
5,694 books
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229 friends
214 books
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41 friends
1,384 books
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82 friends
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