Pope Leo X dubbed Martin Luther a "wild boar" -- loose in the Lord's vineyard. Luther opposed bad doctrine and called the Church to biblical orthodoxy. That's how we came up with the name. I post things that interest me and family updates here...
Ah, this reminds me of one of my favorite (heavily edited) quotes:
"When I reached my own study, I sat down by a blazing fire and poured myself out a glass of wine ... and soon fell into a dreamy state called reverie, which I fear not a few mistake for thinking, because it is the nearest approach they ever make to it. And in this reverie I kept staring about my bookshelves.... I am very fond of books. Do not mistake me. I do not mean that I love reading. I hope I do. But ... I am foolishly fond of the bodies of books as distinguished from their souls.... I delight in seeing books about me.... Nay, more: I confess that if they are nicely bound, so as to glow and shine in such a firelight as that by which I was then sitting, I like them ever so much the better.... [But lest they become as mammon to me] ... —I would rather burn them all. Meantime, I think one safeguard is to encourage one's friends to borrow one's books.... That will probably take some of the shine off them, and put a few thumb-marks in them, which are very wholesome." —Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood by George MacDonald
Is it bad that I'm just wondering who gets to dust all those books? ;)
ReplyDeleteErasmus may have been wrong about the Gospel, but he was right on books:
ReplyDelete"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."
Amen, and amen.
Ah, this reminds me of one of my favorite (heavily edited) quotes:
ReplyDelete"When I reached my own study, I sat down by a blazing fire and poured myself out a glass of wine ... and soon fell into a dreamy state called reverie, which I fear not a few mistake for thinking, because it is the nearest approach they ever make to it. And in this reverie I kept staring about my bookshelves.... I am very fond of books. Do not mistake me. I do not mean that I love reading. I hope I do. But ... I am foolishly fond of the bodies of books as distinguished from their souls.... I delight in seeing books about me.... Nay, more: I confess that if they are nicely bound, so as to glow and shine in such a firelight as that by which I was then sitting, I like them ever so much the better.... [But lest they become as mammon to me] ... —I would rather burn them all. Meantime, I think one safeguard is to encourage one's friends to borrow one's books.... That will probably take some of the shine off them, and put a few thumb-marks in them, which are very wholesome."
—Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood by George MacDonald
That's a great quote, Rodney. I like the first line a lot. I definitely think every good study should have a fireplace and well-stocked wine rack.
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