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“There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself…as if the good Lord had nothing to do but exist! There have been some who were so occupied in spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”
― The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.
― The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.
“I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ‘and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“Our real journey in life is interior: it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts.”
― The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.
― The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.
“If Christianity is not seen as countercultural and even subversive within a military-economic superpower, you can be sure it is a deeply compromised Christianity. A Christianity at home in an empire is the kind of compromised Christianity that the book of Revelation so passionately and creatively warns us against.”
― Postcards from Babylon: The Church In American Exile
― Postcards from Babylon: The Church In American Exile
Bill’s 2025 Year in Books
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