Apr 8, 2008
Don’t study what you haven’t taken pleasure in first.
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Properly, you analyze to enjoy, but it is equally true that to analyze with any discrimination, you have to have enjoyed already.
Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners, 108
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Easily one of the best books I have ever read…I think about what I have learned from that excellent very often.
“Great are the works of the Lord, studied by all who delight in them” (Ps 111:2).
Amen.
Well said!
Likewise, let’s not speak about what we have not first have enjoyed (Christ, the Gospel, the Triune God, being made in God’s image).
Nicely sums up why I prefer rereading a loved book or rewatching a loved film over something new — just because it’s new.