As Christians we cannot make literature our religion. We do not value literature for itself. We do not worship classics. We treasure values and priorities that far exceed the sum worth of the greatest library. Our end is not literature, no matter how true, good, and beautiful it is. Our end is God, the One from whom all truth, goodness, and beauty originates and finds its perfection. Beauty originates in God, but beautiful literature makes for a puny, lousy god. Rather, we seek God, the gospel of his Son, and the salvation of souls. We are willing to sacrifice the time that we could use to
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