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This is definitely the best book I’ve ever read

“By the time they’d finished their tea, they were almost in love with each other— not quite yet, because true love took time and memories, but as close to love as first impressions could take them… But that afternoon they could see with certainty the kind of friends they would be, and loving that vision was close enough.”

“‘And this is just a shop for the public, he said ‘Wait until you see a college library.’
Inside the heady wood-dust smell of freshly printed books was overwhelming. If tobacco smelled like this, Robin thought, he’d huff it every day.“

This was the moment I knew I’d be in for
a favorite book of the year candidate

“There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.”

Don’t worry guys it’s just for working with students I’m not having a career crisis, promise

“I was looking forward to the future, to building a home full of light, where neighbors would smile when they walked past and heard laughter through open windows. I was determined to live where sunlight streamed through open curtains and children played in the yard, where pictures took up too much space on the walls and hushed conversations were a thing of the past. And I’d chosen Mark to go along for the ride”

“If the devil wants anything, it is to rob us of taking any pleasure in what God declares good and has placed here for our benefit. This is a tactical approach, because when the fervor of our devotional efforts runs dry, and no other buffer or godly enjoyment is set in place, it is easy for us to turn to sin for comfort or relief… When we understand worldly things as gifts from God, we become better stewards.”

“Loving our ideological enemies might mean advocating for them [when in danger or situations of injustice]— not because we agree with their conclusions, but because, like us, they are loved by God”

“Allegiance to Jesus should not fit perfectly with your allegiance to America. Your allegiance to Jesus should challenge, define, and clarify your allegiance to America…
We can disagree with LGBTQ sexual ethics but can’t we also bless their desire to protect the trans community from harm? We don’t have to agree with Islam, but can our hearts not break at Muslims being persecuted and harassed?…”

“We don’t really get the option to take it easy when it comes to faith… We must strengthen our faith daily through our willingness to sacrifice— especially for those around us. Our genuine willingness to lose for the sake of our neighbors’ gain is the only way to maintain a healthy, thriving, dangerous faith and to live an abundant life.”

“A Christianity that cares for the marginalized, the poor, and the oppressed.
A Christianity with a global savior and global agenda.
A Christianity that has an actual effect on people’s spiritual, social, economic, and environmental state.
A Christianity that does not pit a biblical sexual ethic against genuinely caring for those whose lifestyle it doesn’t endorse. This indeed is the Christianity of Christ”

“Look around you. Wherever you are right now is the real world. If you are not acting on what you believe in the present, then what’s to say you will in the future?”

I am reading my second book about teenage girls summer camp this year. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s still probably two more than I’ve read in my lifetime.

“Yet there is a vast difference between loneliness (defined negatively by lack and characterized by the absence of other people) and solitude (defined positively by fullness and characterized by the presence of God)… Loneliness is an affliction that all human beings experience, but solitude is a gift that requires contemplative discipline.”

“What if, rather than pursuing marriage as a means for satisfying our own self-interested desires or as a therapy for various dysfunctions, Christian’s pursued marriage in order to be conduits of God’s gratuitous generosity? … the underlying reason why a Christian would pursue marriage remains the same: to give rather than to get, and thus translate God’s generosity into tangible blessing.”

[In reference to the Genesis ‘marriage’ account- “it is not good for man to be alone”]
“It most certainly is not good for humans to be alone— we can be sure of that much. But the answer to being alone is not marriage. It’s community. Better yet, it’s communion, primarily with God and also with each other. This is how the biblical narrative understands what it means to be fully human.”

“And so that I’m not misunderstood, let me make this point painfully clear. To understand single life in terms of waiting for a soulmate is to treat one’s imagined future spouse as both a fetish and an idol. It is sub-Christian.” 🙊

I will buy this book right now for anybody that wants to read it with me

Today I worked on a puzzle for two hours and read for like 3, who am I?