Intolerance

 D.A. Carson’s book The Intolerance of Tolerance:
This shift from “accepting the existence of different views” to “acceptance of different views,” from recognizing other people’s right to have different beliefs or practices to accepting the differing views of other people, is subtle in form, but massive in substance. To accept that a different or opposing position exists and deserves the right to exist is one thing; to accept the position itself means that one is no longer opposing it. The new tolerance suggests that actually accepting another’s position means believing that position to be true, or at least as true as your own.

Choosing What to Read

"While you may be devoting your time to be “well read” among the gigantic list of dead people there is, in addition, at least one book coming out every week that you really should read. I occasionally have a desire to give up. Throw my arms up in the air and simply transfer all my hard fought reading time over to Netflix. To stop reading and start binging on endless seasons of Netflix offerings. My disease, however, prevents me from giving up. I find I’m a better father, husband, friend and leader when I keep my nose consistently in good books.
Harry S. Truman is known for saying, “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” Why all this focus on reading? Well, in an age of non-stop book releases it is more challenging than ever to know what books to read. You can devote 8 hours a day to reading worthless books and you will never run out."
Tim Kimberely (http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2014/04/the-intolerance-of-tolerance/)

I read another quote this week, something like, for every book you choose to read....10,000 other go unread.

To Love Is To Be Vulnerable

C. S. Lewis on love:

To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket – safe, dark, motionless, airless – it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is hell.

- The Four Loves, 169.

I think I've blogged the first sentence of this quote before but the 2nd part is really thought provoking.  Hell is the absence of love....

I'm not Religious

I hope that people don't remember me as a "religious person."  I almost consider that as an insult.  Rather, I want them to say, she was kind, joyful, patient, loving, good, faithful, full of peace, gentle, and self-controlled....well, she was like Jesus!  That would be the highest compliment.

http://www.faithgateway.com/why-i-think-jesus-hates-religion-and-you-should-too-part1/?fb_action_ids=10201816242948665&fb_action_types=og.comments#.U1p3dKL-qmA