I saw a pointer from Julie the other day about a book called Sense Nonsense: Fundamental Propositions Not Too Good to Be True, Just Too Hard to Accept, by Francisco J. Garcia-Julve. It sounded interesting, so I picked up a copy. It’s mostly a collection of statements intended to make you think about things. Many of them are intended to be (or at least to appear) somewhat paradoxical. And some of them are more interesting than others.

For example, I think this one is kind of light-weight.

As a rule, people care most about what matters least and care least about what matters most.

An interesting statement, and quite possibly true for the general run of people. Read one way, it’s an invitation to look for things in my life that I care about a lot that don’t really matter; read another way, it’s an invitation to look down on all those folks who don’t care about the things I think are important. But is it profound?

On the other hand, I quite like this one:

Going into prayer should not mean starting to talk with God but starting to only talk with God; neither should starting work mean stopping prayer, but just changing the subject of prayer.

Now, if only I could live like that I’d be all set.

I’ve not read the whole book yet—it’s not the sort of book you just read through from cover to cover—so I don’t know whether I like it or not.