Jonathan Simone Benatti Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Jonathan Simone Benatti

That gains a new energy when I think of her as a sword [...] Now perhaps He grasps the hilt; weighs the new weapon; makes lightnings with it in the air. "A right Jerusalem blade". C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

Jonathan Simone Benatti

This is the Epigraph from John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany. Paul and Buechner. Perfect, absolutely perfect. https://t.co/daH9UkucFy

Jonathan Simone Benatti

God was not interested in our theology but only in our silence. (The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy). Sometimes, being apophatic is not a crime.

Jonathan Simone Benatti

Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage. C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity.

Jonathan Simone Benatti

The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us if we trust to them; it was not in them, it only came through them, and what came through them was longing. C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

Jonathan Simone Benatti

Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, Little Gidding

Jonathan Simone Benatti

He knew only that the child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God, God never spoke. (Cormac McCarthy, The Road)

Jonathan Simone Benatti

Three books which are helping me to cope with this period. Todd Billings, The End of Christian life @jtoddbillings Christian M. Brady, Beautiful and Terrible Things @Targuman Nicholas Wolterstorff, Lament for a Son Please, consider follow the authors: solid Christian life.