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"'Behold, your mother' (John 19:27). Considering the context, this exhortation could hardly have been more urgent. Our Lord was in the midst of unimaginable suffering in order to redeem the entire world when he uttered these words that have echoed down through the centuries."

Pretty solid so far

Oh. This is good.

Had my wisdom teeth removed today-- let's see if I can finally finish this TOME.

Mister Umberto Eco... WHAT are you talking about here? It's like smelling the smoke of a candle that's blown out. There COULD BE illumination here, but I can't quite grasp it. Only a wispy witness:


"But is this purity?" I asked, horrified.
"There must be some other kind as well," William said, "but, however it is, it always frightens me."
"What terrifies you most in purity?" I asked.
"Haste," William answered.

Very thought provoking and provocative as a 21st century man reading this. I catch myself feeling giddy/nervous about how dominant societal attitudes would feel about this book. Pretty incredible how von le Fort uses sociology, history, art, and religion to comment on the symbolism and spiritual power of women. I'm sat.

If you're an idiot, you should NOT read this book!

Pages 376-378 was a riveting recap of Church History-- I learned more about the sacerdotal vs monarchical model than I did in 2 weeks of lecture

Heschel's focus on God's "Anthropopathism" is rich.
"There is a sorrow in God's anger. It is an instrument of purification, and its exercise will not last forever... Anger is not His distortion, but a state He waits to overcome."

Jewish commentary on the prophets has opened my heart in new ways. I love God and I love how God loves His people-- with passion and the idea of disengagement as inconceivable.

Saving the final chapter for tonight when I'm cozy in bed again. But wow-- the last hundred pages or so have been incredible. Up until that point, the book was likely a 4 star for me... but the theological, eschatological dimensions of this children's book has filled me deeply and given me a new imagination for my own faith/values/identity... hmph. A surprising and welcomed experience for sure.

...what just happened... a plot twist like I have never experienced... am I... distressed? Enthralled. Enraged? Enraptured? I probably won't sleep tonight.

"... but the prophet deals with relations between God and man, where contradiction is inevitable... in judging human affairs, it unfolds a divine situation... God's role is not spectatorship but involvement. He and man meet mysteriously in the human deed... The God of Israel is never impersonal."

Enjoying this. Feels like an accessible refresher and expansion of two semesters of Old Testament lol

The Sphinx is a bad bad person and it makes me quite agitated... ENOUGH OF YOU, YOU BEAST!

“We create a home, forgetting it is temporary. We possess an item, forgetting this state will not endure. We dwell in a dimension of beginnings and endings. We embark on journeys, presuming to know what we seek, while the wise are always finding."

If this was a book for adults, I would for sure throw up bc a happy ending isn't guaranteed. Probably the worst thing to ever happen just happened?? STOP! I need a break from this book.

You know when a book gets so good that you start feeling guilty? Like you begin cancelling all your plans for the day, you get cozy, and you read for hours and hours? This is happening. The last two chapters I read have me SAT.

MY GOD! PLEASE! No other FableHaven book has stressed me out this bad. Just disaster after disappointment after dismal horrific performance. Absolutely riveting. Love it. Chest thumping. Hands sweating.

I can't. Wow-- devastating. It's 2am and I gotta put the book down. Can't believe what just happened.

Last book ended on a cliffhanger that stressed me out! Going to find an unoccupied nurse's station and start this one hehehe

*closes eyes and shudders w/ irritation* Bro what is up w/ the impetuous and foolhardy teenage boy character. We've been introduced to another one *deep sigh* who is destroying everything! Lol imma keep reading... but still I'm curious--sociologically, why does there seem to be a real dearth of shrewd teenage boy characters in pop culture?? Guess it makes for a less exciting story?

Now this is more like it! Mhm mhm-- kicking my feet tittering again hehehe

Brilliant:

"A child who had yet to utter a sound, a girl with long blonde hair, wide brown eyes, and an expressive face, now joined us with a big surprise question: 'How do you know if God is happy?'
No one said anything... These children weren't withholding comment out of shyness, apprehension, suspicion, animosity; they were really at work thinking about how to answer that question."

So good-- I don't want it to end :((