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“Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.”
― The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
― The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection
“The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.”
― Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
― Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.”
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“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”
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“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
Ruben’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Ruben’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
180 books
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6 friends
298 books
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15 friends
193 books
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64 friends
130 books
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70 friends
178 books
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354 friends
152 books
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30 friends
1 book
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21 friends
19 books
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92 friends
Favorite Genres
Biography, Book Club, Classics, Fiction, History, Horror, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, and Psychology
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