Sign in with Facebook
As I think about it now, I realize I looked pretty silly walking around with my bucket, but I probably look even sillier walking around with all my pride and selfishness and impatience. Even more so to the people who were closest to me—the
...more
“What is truly profound is thought to be stupid and trivial, or worse, boring, while what is actually stupid and trivial is thought to be profound. That is what it means to fly upside down.”
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
― The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life in God
“Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
― The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman: A Visionary for Our Time
― The Living Wisdom of Howard Thurman: A Visionary for Our Time
“In many cases, our need to wonder about or be told what God wants in a certain situation is nothing short of a clear indication of how little we are engaged in His work.”
― Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
― Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God
“Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done.”
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
― Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer
“For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head.”
― The Abolition of Man
― The Abolition of Man
Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,887 books
|
106 friends
10,505 books
|
441 friends
29 books
|
24 friends
813 books
|
235 friends
1,019 books
|
55 friends
138 books
|
6 friends
56 books
|
73 friends
46 books
|
55 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Mark
Lists liked by Mark