Resources - Books

How many times have you told yourself you're going to remember a certain book but when it comes time to get one, you never remember. Well I'm tired of it, so hopefully I'll remember to reference this list. It's a collection of books/articles I want to read and those recommended by others. Update 2020-05-02:  Books I've read are below the "TO READ" list.
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TO READ / RECOMMENDED
HAVE READ / COMMENTS:
Favorite books:
Other books:
Gates of Fire: Steven Pressfield (Amazon)
Grand Jihad, The: Andrew McCarthy (ISBN)
  • Government's role: safeguard rule of law and provide national security
  • Individual rights are to protect us from government, they don't imply government coddling
  • What government seizes from one group (or an individual), it must seize from another (or individuals)
How Will You Measure Your Life, Clayton Christensen, 2012
It's Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt, 2016
  • "Words used to bar other people from a place at the human table are words that are worth thinking about twice." Page 105
  • "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty.  We must always remember that accusation is not proof." journalist Edward R. Murrow.
Pilgrims Regress (read, 2016-09)
  • Book 8 CH 5: If its help is not a metaphor neither are its commands.  If it can answer when you call, then it can speak without you asking.  If you can go to it, it can come to you.  - Man
  • Book 8 CH 5:  But is a very different thing to hold your hand out to a surgeon to be hurt as much as he thinks fit.  And at his speed.  – John
  • Book 8 CH 10:  You must not try to keep the raptures; they have done their work.  Manna kept is worms.  - History
Wild at Heart, John Eldredge, 2001, 2010\
  • Teddy Roosevelt's 'Man in the Arena' quote, It is not the critic who counts...
  • Three desires of a woman's heart; to be wanted, an adventure to share, a beauty to unveil
  • Movie suggestion, A Perfect World
  • Neil Anderson quote; "Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there.  Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made."
  • A main point; "Let people feel the weight of who you are and let them deal with it".
  • Daily prayer suggestion:
    • Lord, I put on the belt of truth.  I choose a lifestyle of honest an integrity.  Show me truths I so desperately need today.  Expose the lies I'm not even aware I'm believing.  Lord, I wear your righteousness today against all condemnation and corruption.  Fir me with your holiness and purity - defend me from all assaults against my heart.  I do choose to live for the gospel at any moment.  Show me where the larger story is unfolding and keep me from being so lax that I think the most important thing today is the soap operas of this world.  Jesus, I lift against every lie and every assault the confidence that you are good, and that you have good in store for me.  Thank you, Lord, for my salvation.  I receive it in a new and fresh way from you and I declare that nothing can separate me now from the love of Christ and the place I shall ever have in your kingdom.  Holy Spirit, show me specifically today the truths of the Word of God that I will need to counter the assaults and the snares of the Enemy.  Bring them to mind throughout the day.  Finally, Holy Spirit, I agree to walk in step with you in everything - in all prayer as my spirit communes with you throughout the day.
Wind in the Willows, The
  • "The Mole was so touched by his kind manner of speaking that he could find no voice to answer him; and he had to brush away a tear or two with the back of his paw. But the Rat kindly looked in another direction, and presently the Mole's spirits revived again..."
    • From the chapter, "The River Bank"; this is after The Mole capsized the boat following his being adamant to row. I love the graciousness and the genius gesture of looking away. It is so powerful and so well captured in this one paragraph. Silence can be incredible.
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