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Alex is Currently Reading

Alex Strohschein is currently reading

Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most

by Miroslav Volf

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The Challenge of the Disciplined Life: Christian Reflections on Money, Sex, and Power

by Richard J. Foster

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“If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

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“But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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