“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
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“Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.”
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“"If there is no God, then man and the universe are doomed. Like prisoners condemned to death, we await our unavoidable execution. There is no God, and there is no immortality. And what is the consequence of this? It means that life itself is absurd. It means that the life we have is without ultimate significance, value, or purpose.”
― Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics
― Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics
“The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The artist lives to have stories to tell and to learn to tell them well.”
― Killosophy
― Killosophy
Jo’s 2025 Year in Books
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