{Commonplace} Reading like Spurgeon
“I like, when I have read a book for about a half hour or so, to walk a while, and think it over.
I shut the volume and say ‘Now, Mr. Author, you have made your speech, let me think over what you have said. A little meditation will enable me to distinguish between what I knew before and what you have communicated, between your facts and your opinions, between your arguments and those I should make from the same premises.'”-C.H. Spurgeon, Sermon on Psalm 104:34, July 15, 1858
I really like this quote. Great example of quotes saved I your journal
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Wow! Love this quote!
It’s so good! I love the thought of reading like that!
I’m trying to do this! not quite so poetic a way, but narrating each chapter as I go. I’m so idealistic I have thoughts of what I might do with my commonplace book, but I never get around to it, it seems. so, I’ll keep on doing the narrating!
Narration is so good and so hard! I keep meaning to do that! It was my goal to narrate after each chapter of the massive Bonhoeffer biography, but I didn’t… so I just wrote quotes instead. You’re doing the harder job!