What I have learned from about twenty-years of serious reading is this: It is sentences that change my life, not books. What changes my life is some new glimpse of truth, some powerful challenge, some resolution to a long-standing dilemma, and these usually come concentrated in a sentence or two. I do not remember 99% of what I read, but if the 1% of each book or article I do remember is a life-changing insight, then I don’t begrudge the 99%.Read the rest.
Wednesday, June 09, 2010
Keep Reading
This post on reading and retention from C.J. Mahaney was a great encouragement to me. He quotes John Piper:
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I was just thinking that yesterday while reading - ironically - a Piper book. Very true.
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