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Those who read great works, on the other hand, will read the same work ten, twenty or thirty times during the course of their life.
“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors. We realise it best when we talk with an unliterary friend. He may be full of goodness and good sense but he inhabits a tiny world. In it, we should be suffocated. The man who is contented to be only himself, and therefore less a self, is in prison. My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through those of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many, is not enough. I will see what others have invented.”
― The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes
― The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes
“While the Bible clearly values the work of raising children that women often undertake, it also greatly values women’s gospel ministry outside the home, and gives us positive examples of women working for pay. The ideal wife described in Proverbs 31 makes money from her work outside the home, and some of the first female Christians held paid jobs.”
― The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims
― The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims
“We need more theology, nuance, grace, compassion, and understanding in our churches, not less.”
― Before You Lose Your Faith: Deconstructing Doubt in the Church
― Before You Lose Your Faith: Deconstructing Doubt in the Church
“The good news is, every gospel-preaching church is playing for the same kingdom team.”
― Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential
― Rediscover Church: Why the Body of Christ Is Essential
“Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality. There are mass emotions which heal the wound; but they destroy the privilege. In them our separate selves are pooled and we sink back into sub-individuality. But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.”
― The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes
― The Reading Life: The Joy of Seeing New Worlds Through Others' Eyes
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