Finished reading: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez 📚. Again. Reread 02.
😭Three years later this is still the saddest book I’ve ever read. And my best.
Of red ants and …
Thabiti Anyabwile, _New City Catechism _:
We human people are so fallen, and we’ve been so fallen for so long, that we actually think that we are the measure of what it means to be human. It’s striking. We say things like “to err is human.” And we unwittingly then begin to define humanity in terms of that fallenness, in terms of its brokenness, in terms of its incompleteness. But if you define humanity like that, what do you do with Jesus? What do you do with Jesus who takes upon himself our humanity, yet, as the Bible tells us, is without sin, who does not err?
Thomas Browne doing what he does best 😂😂
Now as all that die in warre are not termed Souldiers, so neither can I properly terme all those that suffer in matters of Religion Martyrs. The Councell of …
But the indomitable egotism which forever rides down the hosts opposed to it, the river which says on, on, on; even though it admits, there may be no good for us whatever, still on, on; this …
I have just seen a series of Substack posts titled “Rhema Error Feast.” Of course you would know what to expect as you open it to read it: much criticism, and I hazard to say, pretty …
Thomas Browne:
The Jew is obstinate in all fortunes; the persecutions of fifteene hundred yeares have but confirmed them in their errour: they have already endured whatsoever may be inflicted, and have suffered, in a bad cause, even to the condemnation of their enemies. Persecution is a bad and indirect way to plant Religion; It hath beene the unhappy method of angry devotions, not onely to confirme honest Religion, but wicked Heresies, and extravagant opinions.
To think that he wrote that before The Holocaust.
As I look back at my own journey of salvation, I am especially grateful for the preachers from whom I heard God’s word. I have felt moved as I took some time to hear Apostle Michael Orokpo and …
1 Samuel 25 tells the story of Abigail. I am wondering whether or not it would be a good idea to give a summary of the story. I think I will.
David is being pursued by Saul who wants to kill him, and …
There’s this paragraph in 100 Years that… I find it hard properly expressing the hold that it has on me. And no, it isn’t because it’s the best in the book.
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to fund the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.
