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Biggest takeaway from the introduction is that J.R.R. Tolkien says he saw the Ancient Greek, Norse, and other mythologies and was mad that the English haven’t made anything that notable so he basically took it upon himself to do it. What a legend

I want someone to film the riddle scene in the cave except instead of Bilbo it’s Jim Carrey’s Riddler from the 90s going back and forth with Gollum

“But the tyranny of fathers is not the same as the tyranny of one's peers. Not following fathers is quite different from not living up to the expectations of one's peers. The first means disobedience; the second, non-conformity. The first creates guilt feelings; the second, feelings of shame. In this respect there is an obvious shift from a guilt culture to a shame culture.”

“For the minister is called to recognize the sufferings of his time in his own heart and make that recognition the starting point of his service. Whether he tries to enter into a dislocated world, relate to a convulsive generation, or speak to a dying man, his service will not be perceived as authentic unless it comes from a heart wounded by the suffering about which he speaks.”

The Spotify audiobook is narrated by Andy Serkis😭🙌

“In all circumstances we are eager to blame our brother and impute faults to him. We live in carelessness, without concerning ourselves about anything, and yet we demand an account from our neighbor of how he is keeping the commandments.”

“Self-accusation means accepting the role of the guilty person, as our Lord accepted it and was burdened with our guilt.”

“Spiritual worldliness is paganism in an ecclesiastical disguise.”

And he knew that the gateway to heaven could look like a man and be a man, a small, frail, bald man, who was for Christ on earth what Saint Michael was for God in heaven.
"Go", said Ignatius. "Go and set all afire."

He said the thing!

“Tomorrow life began anew. It was not going to be pleasant, the way he had thought of pleasant things so far. It was going to be the greatest of all great adventures, though. He had a natural urge for adventure; it was that, perhaps, which made him doubt again and again that he could be happy among the worthy canons of Pamplona.”