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23 February 2008

Warning to the Bibliophile...


"Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge."
John Wesley (1703-91)

3 comments:

Valerie said...

I don't think John Wesley means that we can't enjoy our books or reading...just that we shouldn't lose ourselves so much in books or "being well-read" that we forget to be good to our fellow people :-)....

K said...

Oh I agree! :-)
Go to 1Corinthians 13, the entire chapter, not just the part that we hear at weddings and such...
1Corinthians 13:2- and if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.
I think that's exactly what Wesley was referring to.

C and J said...

Another great quote, though, is from Thomas Jefferson written to John Adams in 1815,"I cannot live without books." Now, is that an arguable one?
XOXOXOXO, Mom