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“We must reflect that, when we reach the end of our days, our life experience will equal what we have paid attention to, whether by choice or default.”

2025 is a year I’ve decided to intentionally step away from social media for a while. This book has been sitting on my shelf for years and I think this is the perfect time to read it. Let’s see how it goes.

“I shook hands with him; it seemed silly not to for I felt suddenly as though I were talking to a child.”

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.”

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart.”

“It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.”

“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”

“In Jesus Christ, we are given a friend who will always enjoy rather than refuse our presence. This is a companion whose embrace of us does not strengthen or weaken depending on how clean or unclean, how attractive or revolting, how faithful or fickle, we presently are. The friendliness of his heart for us subjectively is as fixed and stable as is the declaration of his justification of us objectively.”

“All our weakness — indeed, all of our life — is tainted with sin. If sin were the color blue, we do not occasionally say or do something blue; all that we say, do, and think has some taint of blue.”

“The minimum bar to be enfolded into the embrace of Jesus is simply: open yourself up to him. (…) Indeed, it is the only thing he works with. (…) You don’t need to unburden or collect yourself and then come to Jesus. Your very burden is what qualifies you to come. No payment is required; (…) His rest is gift, not transaction. (…) Jesus Christ’s desire that you find rest (…) outstrips even your own.”

“Wolf might be alive, or he might be dead. But to know, to know for certain — there was freedom in that.”

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Always.