Isaac Holmes > Recent Status Updates

Meh

“That's the strangest thing about this life, about being in the ministry. People change the subject when they see you com-ing. And then sometimes those very same people come into your study and tell you the most remarkable things. There's a lot under the surface of life, everyone knows that. A lot of malice and dread and guilt, and so much loneliness, where you wouldn't really expect to find it, either.”

“…and we, this Arctic flower… are seated among these stars alone: none to turn to, none to make us known; a little country settlement so deep, so lost in shelve and shade of dew, no one so much as laughs at us. Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?” (p48)

“…’you came to this country to lay down your life for them. But in fact they are laying down their lives for you.’ … No … They had chosen death for themselves—because they had faith; but this answer had no longer power to heal his wounds.”

“How many of our Christians, if only they had been born in another age from this persecution would never have been confronted with the problem of apostasy or martyrdom but would have lived blessed lives of faith until the very hour of death.”

Very uplifting stuff

Pretty much had to make an update at 67%. I’ve come to respect this book, and recognize it has value, but the theology is fundamentally chopped.

Lots of talking so far

“There must be no question at all of poisoning your mind with novels.”

Great advice honestly

A sharp turn for the worse led to a much less irritating section

Not off to a great start…