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“We are what we love. If we love God, in whose image we were created, we discover ourselves in him and we cannot help being happy: we have already achieved something of the fullness of being for which we were destined in our creation. If we love everything else but God, we contradict the image born in our very essence, and we cannot help being unhappy, because we are living a caricature of what we are meant to be.”
― A Book of Hours
― A Book of Hours
“Where are the concomitant examples of the opposite—that is, individuals “escaping” the “inequalities of America capitalism” for a better life in communist regimes?”
― American Marxism
― American Marxism
“We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.”
― Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
― Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols
“Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.”
― Think and Grow Rich
― Think and Grow Rich
Joel’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Joel’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
322 books
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50 friends
10 books
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31 friends
3 books
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75 friends
46 books
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72 friends
1 book
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126 friends
1,127 books
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50 friends
378 books
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32 friends
527 books
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86 friends
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