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"The real Martin Luther... was not that attractive!"
And that's all you'll get from me!
Is it weird to decide one of your favorite authors before you've read any of his works? Because right now I'm strangely infatuated with G.K. Chesteron, just from reading a) his biography, b) some varied quotes, and c) brief summaries of many of his works. I've read bits and pieces of his writing because he's quoted like a madman by just about every POD Catholic living. He's like the Catholic C.S. Lewis (although Lewis was practically Catholic... he believed in purgatory, for heaven's (heh) sake!), except potentially even cooler. Must. Find. Chesteron. Books.
As for other spiritual books that are super duper and potentially worth seeking out, I highly recommend "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas a Kempis. It'll make you feel sort of inferior, but at the same time every single chapter (which are like a page and a half each) seems like it's talking right to you... It's "Christianity's Second Best Seller" -- only the Bible has sold more copies.
For a similar book that will make you feel ever more inferior, try "Story of a Soul," the autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux. Super spiffy. Even if you're not a fish-eater.
Excuse me for indulging myself momentarily:
"[Catholicism] is the only thing that frees a man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age." G.K. Chesteron, from "Why I am Catholic"
1 comment:
You've got a point: I mean, look at him!
Yeh, the Imitation of Christ is already on my list...I've heard a lot of good stuff about it.
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