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I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness--a real thorough-going illness.
“Everything depends on what circumstances and what environment man lives in. Environment is everything, and man himself is nothing.”
― Crime and Punishment
― Crime and Punishment
“Flannery O’Connor, who wrote about one of her characters, Hazel Motes, that “he knew that the best way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.”2 If you are avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless and save you, then ironically, you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper but you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God. You are trying to save yourself by following Jesus.”
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
― The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“How can a man of consciousness have the slightest respect for himself”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
“But the measure of a man is not the fear he sows in his enemies. It is the hope he gives his friends.”
― Dark Age
― Dark Age
“He is my favorite smell, my favorite sound, my favorite sight. He will never know how much I love him because he does not remember the day Darrow and I conceived him, or the months I carried him inside me, or the minute he came into the world, the moment he said his first word or took his first step, or made me laugh for the first time. I remember all those things, and all the things about them. Where the sun lay in the sky, how his father’s eyes sparkled, what I feared in those moments, what I hoped for his life to be. That season of life is a haze to him, but when I die and reflect on my life, I know I will still believe that season was the meaning of mine.”
― Light Bringer
― Light Bringer
Seth’s 2025 Year in Books
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