Landrum P. Leavell III Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Landrum P. Leavell III

“It is from misbelief, or at least inadequate belief, about the Incarnation that difficulties at other points in the gospel story usually spring. But once the Incarnation is grasped as a reality, these other difficulties dissolve.” -J. I. Packer, Knowing God

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Landrum P. Leavell III

No one is impervious to distractions. “If you have never had any distractions, you don’t know how to pray.” -Trappist monk Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation

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Landrum P. Leavell III

“For a man of prayer is, in the final analysis, the man who is able to recognize in others the face of the Messiah and make visible what was hidden, make touchable what was unreachable.” -Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society, 47

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Landrum P. Leavell III

“Paradoxical thinking can also save us from the crimped and cramped versions of faith that bedevil Christianity and are, at bottom, idolatries that elevate theological abstractions above the living God.” -Parker Palmer, On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old

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Landrum P. Leavell III

“Christ did not die for the good and beautiful. It is easy enough to die for the good and beautiful; the hard thing is to die for the miserable and corrupt.” -Shusaku Endo, Japanese novelist, from his classic novel, SILENCE

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Capturing what the Pharisees had become in one scathing sentence. Emily Brontë wrote: “He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbors.” -Wuthering Heights

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“Illness is the most heeded of doctors. To goodness and wisdom we make only promises, pain we obey.” -Marcel Proust, Sodium and Gomorrah, vol.4 in In Search of Lost Time

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Landrum P. Leavell III

“If my private world is in order, it will be because I have chosen to press into the rush and routine of my daily life in order to find the rest God prescribed for Himself and all of humanity.” -Gordon MacDonald, Ordering Your Private World -The discipline of rest

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“Talk to me about the truth of religion still listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.” -C. S. Lewis, A Grief Observed

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Landrum P. Leavell III

“They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.” -Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition

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