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Having read this every January for 6 years now, I’m still blown away by the insight it gives and personal heart change it pursues and achieves.In the last chapter the description of a Christians embrace of their Heavenly reward is beautiful:
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“It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to.”
― The Lord of the Rings
― The Lord of the Rings
“To gain all we must risk all”
― My Reminiscences of East Africa: The Campaign for German East Africa in World War I
― My Reminiscences of East Africa: The Campaign for German East Africa in World War I
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which,if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors.”
― The Weight of Glory
― The Weight of Glory
“Live each day as if thy last” is a wise word from a hymn written in 1674 by Thomas Ken. The older we get, the more needful its wisdom becomes, and if we have not already taken it to heart, we should do so now.”
― Finishing Our Course with Joy: Guidance from God for Engaging with Our Aging
― Finishing Our Course with Joy: Guidance from God for Engaging with Our Aging
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