Daniel Nelms

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Daniel is Currently Reading

Daniel Nelms is currently reading

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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Reading for the 3rd time

read in July 2016

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Spiritual Direction From Dante: Ascending Mount Purgatory (Volume 2)

by Paul A. Pearson

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The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory

by Dante Alighieri

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read in November 2018

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Daniel Nelms said: " As a Protestant you must be willing to plough through the imbedded Catholic theology that is expected throughout the poem. But by considering our pilgrimage in this current life on earth and the purification of sanctification, there is still a hermen ...more "

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Daniel’s Quotes

“I don't believe in God, but I miss him.
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― Julian Barnes

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“God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“It is not great talents God blesses so much as likeness to Jesus. A holy minister is an awful weapon in the hand of God.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students

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“Hope is the last thing that dies in man; and though it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of this good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey's end.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

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