“The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.” Oswald Chambers.
I ran across this today and it echoed in my mind for a while. I guess we read for different reasons at different times. Sometimes I want a “mindless read” while at other times I am up to having my mind stimulated, even challenged by the words on the page. But the words that stick with me and roll around in my head the longest (might I go so far to say that they actually change me) are indeed those that “give expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in [me] for utterance.”
It occurs to me... 