Where Are My Books ???

I love my books...Many of my favorite books I've loaned out to people....I USED to loan them out but I don't do it to often any longer because too many of them have never found their way back home! (Examples: Atlas Shrugged, The Doll House, Laughing Boy, Life and Death in Shanghai, Little Shepherd of the Hills - an old fashioned book but the author wrote it while boarding at my Grandma's house in Bluff, To Kill a Mocking Bird - and there are lots more I haven't got back! Shame on those who borrow and don't return.

Right now I'm reading Milton's Paradise Lost - and most of it I love. I love this passage in Book 4: Raphael speaking to Adam (before the fall):
"Son of Heav'n and Earth attend: That thou art happy, owe to God, that thou continu'st such, owe to thyself. That is, to thy obedience;....be advis'd, God made thee perfect, not immutable; and good he made thee, but to perservere he left in thy power, ordain'ed thy will by nature free, not overrul'd by Fate inextricable, or strict necessity;
"Our voluntary service he requires, not our necessitated, such with him finds no acceptance, nor can find, for how can hearts, not free, be tri'd whether they were willing or no......"