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“No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.”
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“God is a comedian playing to an audience that is too afraid to laugh.”
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“We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.”
― Art and the Bible: Two Essays
― Art and the Bible: Two Essays
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
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“And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrased, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers--perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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55 books
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247 books
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73 books
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161 books
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475 books
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112 books
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367 books
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