Currently reading: The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James 📚

Lecture I: Religion and Neurology:

Bent as we are on studying religion’s existential conditions, we cannot possibly ignore these pathological aspects of the subject. We must describe and name them just as if they occurred in non-religious men. It is true that we instinctively recoil from seeing an object to which our emotions and affections are committed handled by the intellect as any other object is handled. The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.”

Finished reading: Emma by Jane Austen 📚

Such a delightful read 💜. I have really loved and admired Mr. Knightley. And I think I have met Austen at just the right time in my life.

Jilian Hess:

Perhaps the most shocking thing I learned about Stoker is that he wrote in library books!

Scott Hubbard:

How might you tidy your living room if Jesus himself asked you to do it? How might you take out the trash? How might you study for a test, or prepare a slideshow, or serve a hard-to-love church member? Would you receive the task differently if it came from the one who died for you, rose for you, and rescued you?

Finished reading: An American childhood by Annie Dillard 📚

What would you do if you had fifteen minutes to live before the bomb went off? Quick: what would you read?

John Piper: Happiness Myths to Avoid

Frank Churchill:

It is only by seeing women in their own homes, among their own set, just as they always are, that you can form any just judgment. Short of that, it is all guess and luck—and will generally be ill-luck. How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!”

I think there’s truth in this. And not only women

Mary Jean Irion:

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Emma Woodhouse to Harriet, Emma, Volume 2 Chapter XIV:

…but it is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best. Miss Hawkins, perhaps, wanted a home, and thought this the best offer she was likely to have.”

It is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.