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Listening to the Bible as an audiobook has been a more intense experience than I anticipated. I'm finding myself in a bit of a slump, really struggling to get through it.

There are many parts I'm finding deeply challenging and difficult to reconcile. I'm honestly not sure I can make it all the way through. My mind keeps drifting, just trying to make sense of it all.

“If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not learning.”

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“At that moment the power of reading made itself clear and real to me. If I could see the words, then no one could control them or what I got from them. They couldn’t even know if I was merely seeing them or reading them, sounding them out or comprehending them. It was a completely private affair and completely free and, therefore, completely subversive.”

“As to the monetary value of books I had no knowledge, but their intellectual value was immediately evident.”

“Learn everything. Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.”