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3.95 AVERAGE
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challenging
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inspiring
reflective
tense
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My confession: Tolstoy could write about anything and it would be mesmerizing. I may not agree with his conclusions, but he nonetheless makes one reflect and take pause, and that is infinitely valuable.
This was another great Christian read.
I truly enjoyed it.
It did have a bit of a negative to me:
It talks a lot about suicide. Would not recommend for those with a trigger warning.
However,
This book was a great primer for religion - especially if your faith is wavering.
4.2/5
I truly enjoyed it.
It did have a bit of a negative to me:
It talks a lot about suicide. Would not recommend for those with a trigger warning.
However,
This book was a great primer for religion - especially if your faith is wavering.
4.2/5
Rezonowała ze mną podczas jej czytania i dużo przemyśleń mamy podobnych. Końcówka niestety bardzo niesatysfakcjonująca.
I've never found a piece of writing before that so vividly mirrors my own spiritual process as this. My life was very different than Tolstoy's, of course, and the Russian Orthodox church is extremely different from the fundamentalist Baptist church I grew up in, but the observations are the same, and the struggle to find the truth and warmth of Jesus in spite of it all is the same.
I love reading Tolstoy's religious writings, because he is one of the few in the category that I have found that isn't afraid to say exactly what he's feeling or thinking. Many Christians try to be diplomatic, so as not to offend or lead people astray. This is largely because Christian authors are put on a pedestal that they don't belong on. Tolstoy says exactly what he's feeling, and though he wasn't right about everything, it provides a very raw and honest look at the spiritual journey of a troubled thinker.
Best 25 cents I've ever spent.
I love reading Tolstoy's religious writings, because he is one of the few in the category that I have found that isn't afraid to say exactly what he's feeling or thinking. Many Christians try to be diplomatic, so as not to offend or lead people astray. This is largely because Christian authors are put on a pedestal that they don't belong on. Tolstoy says exactly what he's feeling, and though he wasn't right about everything, it provides a very raw and honest look at the spiritual journey of a troubled thinker.
Best 25 cents I've ever spent.
reflective
medium-paced
As a person of faith, Tolstoy is basically always worth reading. His confessions are, as you might expect, basically an autobiography. As such, they are incomplete. Did you not bring you up to the time when he published this book, but rather to the beginning of his Christian journey which is written out in so many of his nonfiction books at the end of his life. It takes you to his discomfort with the Orthodox Church, the first musings of his commitment to simple living, and his unique fusion of Christianity with what he calls "life". You can see that he is still very much under the influence of Arthur Schopenhauer. His later commitments to pacifism and radical simplicity have not yet become fully formed.
That said, it is a fascinating read for anybody who has undergone a similar journey of the mind and heart. It parallels more than a few parts of my own faith journey, and so this spoke to me personally quite a lot. It certainly would be of interest to anybody who likes the novels and later works of Leo Tolstoy.
That said, it is a fascinating read for anybody who has undergone a similar journey of the mind and heart. It parallels more than a few parts of my own faith journey, and so this spoke to me personally quite a lot. It certainly would be of interest to anybody who likes the novels and later works of Leo Tolstoy.
dark
reflective
slow-paced
informative
reflective
slow-paced