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Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas R. Hofstadter Notable Quote: “Perhaps what differentiates highly creative ideas from ordinary ones is some combined sense of beauty, simplicity, and harmony.” When my boys were very young, I would sometimes amuse them with a bedtime story of my own making. I began by clapping my open hands together and then slowly spreading…
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Mere Christianity
by C.S. Lewis Notable Quote: “The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God.” If Christianity ever reunites under a single banner, Mere Christianity will deserve much of the credit. In it, C.S. Lewis set out to present a common-ground view of Christianity, what he termed “mere” Christianity. Lewis…
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Orthodoxy
by G.K. Chesterton Notable Quote: “Whenever we feel there is something odd in Christian theology, we shall generally find that there is something odd in the truth.” For my money, no other work exhibits the full power and impact of Chesterton’s wit, humor, gaiety, and sense of wonder than Orthodoxy. Orthodoxy is straight-up unapologetic Christian apologetics, although…
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The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare
by G.K. Chesterton Notable Quote: “Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? It is that we have only known the back of the world. We see everything from behind, and it looks brutal. That is not a tree, but the back of a tree. That is not a cloud, but the back…
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The Everlasting Man
by G.K. Chesterton Notable Quote: “A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” C.S. Lewis called The Everlasting Man, “the best popular defense of the full Christian position,” and credited it with being among the ten books that were most influential in shaping his life. At…