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Shaped by God: Thinking and Feeling in Tune with the Psalms

by John Piper (Goodreads Author)

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Restless Devotion: An Urgent Call to Godward Discontentment

by Nick Thompson

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When People Are Big and God Is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man

by Edward T. Welch

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How Should I Think about Money? (Crucial Questions) by R.C. Sproul

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A word of commendation from Christ is the ultimate commendation for our servant-hood. Every Christian longs to hear a certain phrase at the end of his life, words that will come from the mouth of Christ: “Well done, good and faithful ...more

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Siya’s Quotes

“People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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“We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders to replace the authority of knowing Jesus Christ personally and directly.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

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“A lot of people lacked that gift: knowing when to fuck off.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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“I waited patiently - years - for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we'd say, Yeah, he's a Cool Guy.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

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“Larry Hein, who wrote the blessing: May all your expectations be frustrated, may all your plans be thwarted, may all your desires be withered into nothingness, that you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in the love of God who is Father, Son, and Spirit”
― Brennan Manning, Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging with Bonus Content

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