Currently reading: The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James 📚
Frederick Locker Lampson:
I ask you, what is human life? Is not it a maimed happiness—care and weariness, weariness and …
Currently reading: The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James 📚
Enjoyed reading a bit of chapter 2 today. I am glad of what I was able to learn, and some of the questions and concerns I was able to articulate in response. I felt I learnt. I hope I did.
New Acquisitions
Psalms 119:53, 138 Hot indignation seizes me, because of the wicked who forsake your Law. My eyes shed streams of tears, because people do not keep your Law.
Being Christians, are we still sorrowed …
All things are His servant. All things. Can a mistake happen to me then?
1 Samuel 17:58 ‘Whose son are you young man?’ Saul asked him. David said, ‘I am the son of your servant Jesse of Bethlehem.’
It couldn’t have been that David was …
Flannery O’Connor in a letter to a friend:
“I’m a full-time believer in writing habits, pedestrian as it all may sound. You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent and this is simply something that has to be assisted all the time by physical and mental habits or it dries up and blows away.”
Tommy Dixon On Keeping a Notebook
Joan Didion, On Keeping a Notebook:
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.
2026-11-01
Ecclesiastes 2:24-25 There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also I saw is from the hand of God, for apart from him who …