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Monday, July 16

Brief Notes on Great Expectations

Inner conflicts that Dicken's Pip has are so explicitly Christian.

'In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong ...

And veryly jolly and most humorous.

... Quite an untaught genius, I made the discovery of this line of action for myself.' (Pip, Chapter 6)

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Sunday, August 27

Days on earth - a poem

The days on earth

Lo! i live in His house
yet i do not see Him
I am like one of His many servants
in His kingdom one in the lowest ranks
which sweeps His wide courtyard
daily gaily
no, what is inside is nothing of my concern
hereand i am already content
for i am in my Father's house.

Lo! i live in His house
yet i do not see Him
but daily His bread i receive
His waters i drink
sitting on His green pasture
them i enjoy in pure gladness
for now i see
that i am in His thoughts.

~S.K

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Monday, April 17

Writers

I barely recall the occasions I latched on Emily Dickinson, Soren Kierkegaard and Kathleen Norris. To my amusement, Norris is related to the other two in a similar way as I am. =)

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Friday, February 17

Giants

If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. Adore A.W.Tozer, C.G.Finney, John Owen.

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Saturday, February 4

Studying, preaching and growth

I did not understand the joy that believers have in seeing any sinner to care and become interested in the things of God. Pg 15

I was growing in faith and knowledge of Jesus, but I still preferred reading religious books instead of the Scriptures. Pg 21

I prayed often and generally with sincerity. But if I had prayed more earnestly, I would have made much more rapid progress in my faith. Despite my slowness to grasp spiritual principles, God showed His great patience towards me. Pg 21

..that Holy Spirit explains the Scripture to us, and help us to preach the Word. The Lord enable me to put this aspect of the Holy Spirit to the test by laying aside my commentaries and almost every other book and simply reading the Word of God. Pg 27

Simplicity in expression and plain speech are of utmost importance. The teacher should speak so that even children and people who cannot read may be able to understand him, as far as the natural mind can comprehend the things of God. Pg 34

The expounder of truth of God speaks for God and for eternity, not to please those with literary taste. Pg 34

Neither eloquence nor depth in thought makes a truly great preacher. Only a life of prayer and mediation will render him a vessel ready for the Master’s use and fit to be employed in the conversion of sinners and in the edification of saints. Pg 35

George Muller, the Autobiography

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Resolution

"The Lord richly made up to me the little I had relinquished for His sake." pg 19

"Although I was very ignorant and weak in faith, I long to win souls for Christ. Every month I circulated about three hundred missionary papers, distributed many tracks and wrote letters to some of my former companions in sin." pg 19

"Every morning from six until eight I prayed and read the Scriptures. After the evening prayer, my communion with God was so sweet that I would continue praying until midnight. Then I would go to a brother's room, and we would pray together until one or two in the morning. Even then, I was sometimes full of joy that I could not sleep." pg 27

George Muller, Autobiography

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Friday, February 3

Enough

Far too much genocide readings today. Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong. Depressing. =P I cannot be more acquiescent with Hamlet, "Madness in great ones must not unwatched go." Act 3 Scene 2.

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More twisted

Hitler considered himself religious, but had only contempt for organized religion and the teachings of the church about Jesus. Hitler had his own private view of Jesus, that of an economic revolutionary and Jew hater. So in some twisted sense Hitler thought he was acting in the tradition of Jesus. If the question is, 'can someone read the New Testament and then go off and do horribly bad things? then the answer is yes. If the question is 'was Hitler in the tradition of mainstream Christianity' then the answer is no.

"When a man gets to the point of identifying himself with Jesus Christ, then he is ripe for an insane asylum."

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Twisted

We need more than patience to face people with twisted, perverted, tortured, weird logic.

Yesterday after almost 4 hours of Anne Frank's diary the movie I attempted to delineate the mindset of Hitler and the Nazis, to reveal the logic that was the source of the Holocaust. The concept of the Final Solution of Jewish problem was a collective project and coherent structure of thoughts, and it was consciously undertaken and profoundly significant to many persons. Much to my disturbed surprise.

I should seek to uncover the fantasy that was the source of Hitler's perception of reality.

But now whom should one trust in order to understand his ideology? Diaries are great, but he did not keep one. His own autobiography, Mein Kampf (My struggle), is known to misrepresent events, filled with glorified inaccuracies, self-serving half-truths and outright revisionism, thus is problematic. His speeches are discounted immediately since they were designed to manipulate rather than to inform.

How to know someone who had the astuteness, the ability to lie, twist, cheat and flatter, one who has learned to lie to his conscience with conviction and to dissemble with candor?

"I was convinced that of all the millions on whom the Hitler Myth had fastened itself, the most carried away was Adolph Hitler, himself." Howard K. Smith

Clever observation.

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Thursday, February 2

Good for good reason

A row of rather competent movies these few days. Memoirs of a Geisha, Anna Karenina, Diary of Anne Frank, The man in the iron mask. Everything changed, I was knocked out of my complacency. Could not stop regretting, how could I remain ignorant all these while. There are some stories everyone should know. I still do not know many. =( Very disheartened now.

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