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“What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.”
― Inherent Vice
― Inherent Vice
“When humans take up their divinely appointed role, looking after God's world on his behalf, this is not a Promethean attempt to usurp God's role. It is the humble, obedient carrying out of the role that has been assigned. The real arrogance would be to refuse the vocation, imagining that we know better than God the purpose for which we have been put here.”
― The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential
― The Case for the Psalms: Why They Are Essential
“I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.”
― True Grit
― True Grit
“The new heavens and the new earth are not replacements for the old ones; they are transfigurations of them. The redeemed order is not the created order forsaken; it is the created order - all of it - raised and glorified.”
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“the author’s judgment is always present, always evident to anyone who knows how to look for it. Whether its particular forms are harmful or serviceable is always a complex question, a question that cannot be settled by any easy reference to abstract rules. As we begin now to deal with this question, we must never forget that though the author can to some extent choose his disguises, he can never choose to disappear.”
― The Rhetoric of Fiction
― The Rhetoric of Fiction
Ron’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ron’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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