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Luke
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“Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession...Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.”
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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
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“As your life is in His hands so are the days of your life. Remember you are immortal until your work is done. But don't let the sands of time get into the eye of your vision to reach those who still sit in darkness. They simply must hear. 'Let the dead attend to the affairs of the already dead.' Go thou and attend the affairs of the dying.”
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“The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In instructing, be brief in what you say in order that your readers may grasp it quickly and retain it faithfully. Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Fiction invented in order to please should remain close to reality.”
― Epistolas Ad Pisones De Ars Poetica
― Epistolas Ad Pisones De Ars Poetica
“Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? Can the writer isolate and vivify all in experience that most deeply engages our intellects and our hearts? Can the writer renew our hope for literary forms? Why are we reading if not in hope that the writer will magnify and dramatize our days, will illuminate and inspire us with wisdom, courage, and the possibility of meaningfulness, and will press upon our minds the deepest mysteries, so that we may feel again their majesty and power? What do we ever know that is higher than that power which, from time to time, seizes our lives, and reveals us startlingly to ourselves as creatures set down here bewildered? Why does death so catch us by surprise, and why love? We still and always want waking.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
Luke’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Luke’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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90 friends
461 books
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1,769 books
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125 books
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955 books
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546 books
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184 books
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239 books
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88 friends
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