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Oh. My. This chapter - The Curate Makes a Discovery - is AWESOME!!

My highlighter is dying!! 😂😂❤️

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I LOVE Polwarth!!! ❤️

“My sinfulness was ever before me, and often my sins too, and I loved them not, yet could not free myself of them. They were in me and of me, and how was I to part myself from that … which asserted itself in me as one with my consciousness? I could not get behind myself so as to reach its root. But here was news of One who came from behind that root itself to deliver me…!”

“It is not to the faithless a man should go to find a faith to keep.”

“Helen supposed she could think - like other people, because the thoughts of other people had passed through her in tolerable plenty, leaving many a phantom conclusion behind; but this was their thinking, not hers. She had thought no more than was necessary now and then to the persuasion that she saw what a sentence meant, …her acceptance or rejection of what was contained in it never more than lukewarm.”

Perfect opening line for today:

“A swift, gray November wind had taken every chimney of the house for an organ-pipe… “

Poll Question: are readers podcast listeners? 🎧 Would you rather read review/commentary about a book or listen to review/commentary about a book? Or watch?

I love David McCullough’s book on John Adams! Made me a fan! I visited three of his homes in MA this year… have you seen the family library??? 😱😱

Watch this reel!

Have you seen the John Adams’s family library? Fangirl with me: Watch this reel!

“Thy wisdom, good sheik, is of the world; and thou dost forget that it is from the ways of the world we are to be redeemed. Man as a subject is the ambition of a king; the soul of a man for its salvation is the desire of a God.”

Wise, wise Balthasar! ❤️

Happy birthday, Mr. Adams!! 🥳🥳

If you’ve read David McCullough’s book you’ll enjoy this reel!

“As for what you shall do, my son - serve the Lord, the Lord God of Israel, not Rome. For a child of Abraham, there is no glory, except in the Lord’s ways, and in them there is much glory.”

❤️❤️❤️

In comparing the nation’s religions, she says “in our worship, the wail of fear gave place to the Hosanna and the Psalm.” That’s so beautiful, so true! How good is the God that we serve that He didn’t build a religion like any man has made (poorly conceived, power hungry, inequitable), but perfectly balanced in governance and relationship - that LOVE to/from God is even a part of our religion! ❤️❤️

This is my second time going through the entire book, but there’s certain sections I’ve already read over and over and over!! Some even nine times now!

And my book is abundantly highlighted!! 😂❤️

Guys, no other book has tempted me more to want to start a podcast or an online live book group than this title!!

Why, why is this not listed on every significant book list?!?

It’s absolutely amazing!!! 🤩❤️

Ben-Hur’s mother: “They to whom a boy comes asking, Who am I, and what am I to be? have need of ever so much care. Each word in answer may prove to the after-life what each finger-touch of the artist is to the clay he is modeling.”

Ben-Hur’s mom is rocking it! 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
She’s one of the best literary motherhood heroes I’ve come across! Her full attention, her wisdom and her boast in the truth turn a doubtful moment for her son into a solid resolution. I’m taking notes - and I’m making myself ready and able to address my kid’s hard questions when they come.

The second time around is better? Yup!! Yes!!
*happy sigh*