I love being able to highlight parts of books on the Kindle and then easily look through them later on the web. Here are some of my favorite quotes looking back over the things I’ve marked in the two years since my last post on this topic.
His internal GPS updated and the horror that had become his life came rushing back.
Blake Crouch, Pines: Wayward Pines: 1 (The Wayward Pines Trilogy)
I especially love that quote! This is how I feel when I wake up before my alarm in the morning. If I can fall back asleep before my internal GPS gets a lock on the day, I’m good, but as soon as I remember all the troubles that I have to face, I’m done for and I might as well get up.
At least twenty percent are going to be wrong, and we’re going to alter them later. But if I don’t make decisions, we die.
Elon Musk as quoted by Walter Isaacson, Elon Musk
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It’s OK to be wrong. Just don’t be confident and wrong.
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I’m a big believer that a small number of exceptional people who are highly motivated can do better than a large number of people who are pretty good and moderately motivated.
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Every year there are more referees and fewer doers.”
When we struggle with depression, what we need most is not a list of things to do. It’s a reminder of what God has already done through his only Son.
Mike Novotny, Taboo: Topics Christians Should Be Talking About but Don’t
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Jesus did not tell his disciples to tell people who aren’t his disciples to start acting like disciples.
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You’re not being bold when you stand up for God’s law on social media.
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Our job is simply to love every person and love every passage, even the passages that tell us to repent.
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What’s the goal of the government? Peace on earth. What’s the goal of the church? Peace with God… No legislation can do what the Bible values most: changing the human heart.
Jorgen had always seen Cobb as strong, immovable. And he was strong. But strong men could still be used up.
Brandon Sanderson, Defiant (The Skyward Series Book 4)
It was one of life’s rules – Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff
Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
I think, as a species, we have a desire to believe that we’re living at the climax of the story. It’s a kind of narcissism. We want to believe that we’re uniquely important, that we’re living at the end of history, that now, after all these millennia of false alarms, now is finally the worst that it’s ever been, that finally we have reached the end of the world.
Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
I have always found that there’s an inverse relationship between the number of people in a room and the amount of useful work that can be done.
John Scalzi, The End of All Things