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"I'm really struggling with this book! Not at all what I expected from Simon Schama. The mocking and supercilious tone is quite wearing." — Jan 17, 2019 08:51AM
"I'm really struggling with this book! Not at all what I expected from Simon Schama. The mocking and supercilious tone is quite wearing." — Jan 17, 2019 08:51AM


“Let us here observe, that a religion that does not require the sacrifice of all things, never has power sufficient to produce the faith necessary unto life and salvation.”
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“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
― Mere Christianity
― Mere Christianity
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