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“The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.”

“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you feel large and tragic? Is it a good feeling to let your life lie fallow?”

Finally made it to the halfway mark. Steinbeck is a master wordsmith.

“Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.”

This is a weird book

“To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is a greater.”

“We are not making up an idea of God by drawing on our imagination; we are seeking instead to listen to the words of Holy Scripture, in which God himself tells us the truth about himself. For God our Creator, whom we could never have discovered by any exercise of imagination, has revealed himself. He has talked. He has spoken through many human agents and messengers—and supremely through his Son, Jesus Christ.”

In the chapter on God’s love: “When we looked at God's wisdom, we saw something of his mind; when we thought of his power, we saw something of his hand and his arm; when we considered his word, we learned about his mouth; but now, contemplating his love, we are to look into his heart. We shall stand on holy ground; we need the grace of reverence, that we may tread it without sin.”

“There is tremendous relief in knowing that His love for me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me….”

I’m taking my time with this book, reading a few pages on my lunch break. Just a few pages gives me enough to think about until the next day.

Found this gem in the preface: “The substitution of NIV for the original KJV quotations of Scripture signifies only a wish for my book to have maximum usefulness and at no point changes my meaning.”

Except words have meaning, and swapping them out changes the context meaning. I wish he had kept all the verses in the KJV version.