Sign in with Facebook
846 books
—
512 voters
“The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair.”
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
“A degraded habitat will produce degraded humans. If there is to be any true progress, then the entire life community must progress.”
―
―
“The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.”
―
―
“Whenever they are attending to the Enemy Himself we are defeated, but there are ways of preventing them from doing so. The simplest is to turn their gaze away from Him towards themselves.5 Keep them watching their own minds6 and trying to produce feelings there by the action of their own wills.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
“And all the time the joke is that the word ‘Mine’ in its fully possessive sense cannot be uttered by a human being about anything. In the long run either Our Father or the Enemy will say ‘Mine’ of each thing that exists, and specially of each man. They will find out in the end, never fear, to whom their time, their souls, and their bodies really belong—certainly not to them, whatever happens.”
― The Screwtape Letters
― The Screwtape Letters
Tim’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Tim’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
2,215 books
|
32 friends
673 books
|
84 friends
1,349 books
|
80 friends
250 books
|
69 friends
756 books
|
256 friends
205 books
|
81 friends
244 books
|
7 friends
207 books
|
102 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Polls voted on by Tim
Lists liked by Tim
