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L.L.’s 2025 Year in Books
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Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark:
"There is too much "swimming in awe" and "only the poetry of what's been lived" in Night Magic. Don't get me wrong. I absolutely love nerdy science and nature-themed books. But, this one was way too much sweeping glorification and not enough nature fo"
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"It wasn't a terrible book, i just couldn't get on board with it. The author tries to hard to make simple things seem profound. Sometimes it lands, most of the time it doesn't."
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Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark:
"Lovely idea and a premise that had lots of potential but far, far too much romanticization to be effective. If the intention is to look deeply and appreciate the ordinary in the everyday in the manner that it naturally exists, then why must we speak "
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“There is no problem with the wider culture that you cannot see in the spades in the Christian Church. The rot is in us, and not simple out there. And Christians are making a great mistake by turning everything into culture wars. It's a much deeper crisis.”
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“Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”
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“The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
― What's Wrong with the World
― What's Wrong with the World
“Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.”
― When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man
― When People Are Big and God is Small: Overcoming Peer Pressure, Codependency, and the Fear of Man
“We will not wake up ten years from now and find we have passively taken on the character of God.”
― Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds
― Women of the Word: How to Study the Bible with Both Our Hearts and Our Minds
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