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light that is thrown by forgetting itself. But how? we ask. And find one answer in ourselves: Light passion-bent past roadblocks it has itself devised: yes, in the fine void of our possible intelligence that announces owl-like one weighty
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“Guilt and shame are universal human problems. And the desire sometimes to start over is also a universal human longing. The world needs to see moral consistency from those of us who claim to be “the saved.” The way they see that consistency is not with a people who are without sins and injustices and flaws, but with a people who know how to repent.”
― Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
― Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
“It appears that if a man and a woman are alone in an apartment together, people’s imaginations run wild and they’re satisfied regardless of the reality.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“Was the “binary” between “unorthodox” people who were loving and kind and “orthodox” who were angry, calculating, and willing to do anything to win?”
― Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
― Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
“Well, I guess anyone who devotes their life to fighting society in order to be free must be pretty sincere about suffering.”
― Convenience Store Woman
― Convenience Store Woman
“The greatest thing a person does is to take the lessons of life, the hard knocks of life, the surprises of life, and the mundane realities of life and refine their own consciousness so that they can gradually come to see the world with more understanding, more wisdom, more humanity, and more grace.”
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
― How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
One Million Pages Per Lifetime
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On the book site Shelfari, there is a person whose life goal is to read 1,000,000 (million) pages! We thought that it would be fun to have this goal h ...more
THE JAMES MASON COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB
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ALL GENRE COMMUNITY OF BOOK LOVERS-Perfect for those interested in good books of any genre, film and lively discussion!- from current fiction, thrille ...more
Tackling the Pulitzer Prize Winners!
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The Pulitzer Prize literature winners comprise a phenomenal collection of novels. Join us as we tackle the monumental task of reading all of the winne ...more
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