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Here are the top 12 books I read or reread in 2024 with one of my favorite quotes from each:

#12. Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes into Stepping Stones for Success– John C. Maxwell

“The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.” 

#11. Developing The Leader Within You– John C. Maxwell

“I may not be able to change the world around me, but I can change the way I see the world within me.”

#10. Emotionally Healthy Spiritually: Unleash the Power of Authentic Life in Christ– Peter Scazzero

“Every time I make an assumption about someone who has hurt or disappointed me without confirming it, I believe a lie about this person in my head. This assumption is a misrepresentation of reality. Because I have not checked it out with the other person, it is very possible I am believing something untrue. It is also likely I will pass that false assumption around to others.” 

#9. The Bedford Boys: One American Town’s Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice– Alex Kershaw

“‘Every man was a hero, I never saw a coward,” Breeden later said with typical self-effacement.”

#8. In The Name Of God: The Colliding Lives, Legends, and Legacies of J. Frank Norris and George W. Truett– O.S. Hawkins

“You shall hear someday that the preacher before you is dead. Oh, no! His tongue will be quiet, his lips will be still, his heart will have ceased beating, but he will be alive- more alive than he is now, more alive than he has ever been in this world! He will have gone from this life; he will be where the conditions of life are perfect because God gives those who trust Him eternal life.”

#7. Man’s Search For Meaning– Vuktor E. Frankel

“If, on the other hadn’t, one cannot change a situation that causes his suffering, he can still choose his attitude.”

#6. What Every Christian Ought To Know– Adrian Rodgers

“You can trust the Bible. You will never be a great Christian until you come to the unshakable conviction that the Bible is the Word of God.”

#5. Like A River: Finding the Fatih and Strength to Move Forward after Loss and Heartache- Granger Smith

“The place where our stories overlap is in the fact that, once again, our lives are like a river. We can’t control the speed or the direction or the obstacles along the way; we can control only how much or how little we surrender to the Source of it. God’s purpose will stand. How quickly we are able to move forward with the ever-flowing current depends on when we decide to stop resisting it.”

#4. BAT-21– William C. Anderson

“A man had laid his life on the line for him many times, and he wouldn’t even recognize him on the street. Unless he spoke. He would forever know that voice; the low voice that had cheered him, cajoled, badgered, nagged, and cursed him into hanging on-the voice that had been branded in his brain.”

#3. Disciplines of a Godly Man– R. Kent Hughes

“If I throw out a boathook from the boat and catch hold of the shore and pull, do I pull the shore to me, or do I pull myself to the shore? Prayer is not pulling God to my will, but the aligning of my will to the will of God”

#2. The Hiding Place– Corrie Ten Boom

“We must tell people what we have learned here. We must tell them that there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still. They will listen to us, Corrie, because we have been here.” 

#1. The Pilgrim’s Progress- John Bunyan

“So I saw in my dream, that just as Christian came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back, and began to tumble, and so continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre, where it fell in, and I saw it no more. 

Then was Christian glad and lightsome, and said with a merry heart, “He hath given me rest by his sorrow, and life by his death.” Then he stood still a while, to look and wonder; for it was very surprising to him that the sight of the cross should thus ease him of his burden. He looked, therefore, and looked again, even till the springs that were in his head sent the waters down his cheeks. Now as he stood looking and weeping, behold, three Shining Ones came to him, and saluted him with, “Peace be to thee.” So the first said to him, “Thy sins be forgiven thee,” the second stripped him of his rags, and clothed him with change of raiment, the third also set a mark on his forehead, and gave him a roll with a seal upon it, which he bid him look on as he ran, and that he should give it in at the celestial gate: so they went their way.”

These were my top 12 books from my reading in 2024. Perhaps there are a few you would like to read yourself. If you would like to learn more about one of these books, feel free to reach out to me!