This summer I started hearing about a new book called Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers, by Dane Ortlund. Sam Allberry called it a book “that astonishes us with the sheer abundance and capacity of Christ’s love for us. 

I read the book, and it was as good as I had heard. I very happy when Dane Ortlund agreed to be on this week’s episode of The Habit Podcast. We talk about beauty, theological correctness, and the importance of surprise in the spiritual life.

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  • Ruth Callaghan do Valle
    12:16 PM, 29 December 2020

    This looks to be the quotation from CS Lewis about writing clearly:

    “The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.

    The reader, we must remember, does not start by knowing what we mean. If our words are ambiguous, our meaning will escape him.

    I sometimes think that writing is like driving sheep down a road. If there is any gate open to the left or the right the reader will most certainly go into it.”

    (“Cross-Examination,” in C.S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, ed. Lesley Walmsley, p. 555.)

    From Gospel Coalition article https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.thegospelcoalition.org/blogs/justin-taylor/c-s-lewiss-advice-on-writing-well/%3famp

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