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( J.C. Ryle)

From my X / Twitter “For you” feed this morning - “Everyone who examines the historical evidence for Christianity, with humility and an open heart, will come to the same conclusion as Alexander Hamilton. Those that reject Christianity, do so for many reasons, but lack of evidence is not one...

“Let us see that our knowledge of Christ is not a powerless, barren, ineffectual knowledge.” - John Flavel

“Christianity isn’t anti-intellectual - it’s evidence based!” - J. Warner Wallace

“Books are gradually becoming the only place in the house where one can still be quiet.” - Julio Cortazar

“Courage attracts. Speak truth in love when it’s unpopular; people are starved for conviction.” (Pastor Erik Reed)

“Train yourself to be indifferent to false claims about you. Without such indifference you can’t be free.” - Leo Tolstoy

“Freedom is a library.” - Joan Margarit

Smile when you say that.

“… religious people, in their sense of life, in their ‘understanding of being,’ distinguish themselves in that they go a step further than the person who merely understands their life as a task, in that they also experience the agency that ‘gives’ them the task or that sets them before the task...

“If God forgives us we must forgive ourselves otherwise its like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than him.” - C.S. Lewis

“It is surprising how much reading a man can do in time usually wasted.” - Theodore Roosevelt

Done. It’s a good book. I benefited from it and enjoyed reading it, but I wouldn’t recommend it for / to a newbie.

“… so many in our day seem to have been distracted from what was, is, and always will be the true priority for every human being - that is, learning to know God in Christ.” - J.I. Packer

I’m currently reading Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything, written by Viktor E. Frankl.

From my X / Twitter “Following” feed a few days ago - “G.K. Chesterton on why you should read books: ’A man who has read a thousand books is armed for life; a man who has read none is easy prey. The man who has read a thousand books has lived a thousand lives. He has seen cities he has never...

“Books are more important than ever.”