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“A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village; the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
“All our merely natural activities will be accepted, if they are offered to God, even the humblest, and all of them, even the noblest, will be sinful if they are not.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
“If Affection is made the absolute sovereign of a human life the seeds will germinate. Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people’s we do not accept them easily enough.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
“We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
Timiney’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Timiney’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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24 friends
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55 books
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Favorite Genres
Art, Biography, Business, Chick-lit, Children's, Christian, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Cookbooks, Crime, Ebooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Paranormal, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, Thriller, and Travel
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