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“If God had perceived that our greatest need was economic, he would have sent an economist. If he had perceived that our greatest need was entertainment, he would have sent us a comedian or an artist. If God had perceived that our greatest need was political stability, he would have sent us a politician. If he had perceived that our greatest need was health, he would have sent us a doctor. But he perceived that our greatest need involved our sin, our alienation from him, our profound rebellion, our death; and he sent us a Savior. ”
― A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
― A Call to Spiritual Reformation: Priorities from Paul and His Prayers
“Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.”
― Alarms and Discursions
― Alarms and Discursions
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Believing in him is not the same as believing things about him such as that he was born of a virgin and raised Lazarus from the dead. Instead, it is a matter of giving our hearts to him, of come hell or high water putting our money on him, the way a child believes in a mother or a father, the way a mother or a father believes in a child.”
― Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
― Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
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ECC Bloomington Book Group
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A place to share books, reviews, discuss what we're reading, get updates from our Library Staff, etc. ...more
#Ancientsathon 2021!
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Throughout the month of June, Tori from Hufflepuff Discovery and I will be running #Ancientsathon, a readathon all about reading classics written prio ...more
Well-Educated Mind Poetry Reading List
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I formed this group in order to post the poetry book list from Susan Wise Bauer's Well-Educated Mind. If you love poetry -- or you need to read more o ...more
The Well-Educated Mind Histories
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Are you a history fanatic? Or do you loathe it terribly and need encouragement to read through this genre? I am reading chronologically through Su ...more
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