22. A Thousand Splendid Suns, Part 1

Join Shanna and Janice in conversation and laughter as they discuss the books they’re reading and their discussion of Khaled Hosseini’s, A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Commonplace Quotes

I do not even try, Lord, to rise up to your heights, because my intellect does not measure up to that task; but I do want to understand in some small measure your truth, which my heart believes in and loved. Nor do I seek to understand so that I can believe, but rather I believe so that I can understand. For I believe this too, that "unless I believe I shall not understand.

~ Anselm

We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of any art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way. (There is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out.)

~ C. S. Lewis

Books Mentioned

Anselm: ProslogiumAn Experiment in Criticism, C.S. Lewis

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