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    Augustine of Hippo
    “Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
    ― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions
    tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness
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    Michelle Duggar
    “Some of the greatest moments are made, even though you wouldn’t choose to go through them, from the hard times.”
    ― Michelle Duggar
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    Michelle Duggar
    “Amendment to live by-
    J.O.Y.

    Jesus first,
    Others second,
    Yourself last.”
    ― Michelle Duggar
    tags: advice-for-daily-living, life, religion
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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: church, grace, sin
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    C.S. Lewis
    “If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: god, world
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    C.S. Lewis
    “Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: age, fairytales, growing-up
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    Groucho Marx
    “Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
    ― Groucho Marx
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    Mary Connealy
    “Of course she'd told him she would, but if the man hadn't registered her sarcasm, then he wasn't making full use of his ears.”
    ― Mary Connealy, Petticoat Ranch
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: books, friends, novelist-quotes
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    “No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.”
    ― Atwood H. Townsend
    tags: reading, study, willful-ignorance
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    Dorothy Love
    “Baking bread is a lot like growing your faith in the Lord, Carrie Louise. You mix together the best ingredients you can find and wait for the mixture to mature, but it's the heat of the oven that makes it something of worth and substance. The same way the tribulations of this world mature a persons faith.”
    ― Dorothy Love
    tags: beauty-for-ashes, bread, faith
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    Dr. Seuss
    “Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.”
    ― Dr. Seuss
    tags: books
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    Groucho Marx
    “I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
    ― Groucho Marx
    tags: books, humor, reading, television
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    George R.R. Martin
    “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
    ― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
    tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books
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    W.H. Auden
    “A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
    ― W.H. Auden
    tags: book
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    Kim Vogel Sawyer
    “The Bible that is falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn't.”
    ― Kim Vogel Sawyer, Courting Miss Amsel
    tags: inspirational
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    Kim Vogel Sawyer
    “Looks aren't everything. Looks fade, but character remains.”
    ― Kim Vogel Sawyer, A Hopeful Heart
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    Gregg Harris
    “Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
    ― Gregg Harris
    tags: excellence, inspirational, success
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom, Clippings from My Notebook
    tags: strength, worry
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
    ― Corrie ten Boom
    tags: faith, future, god, trust
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom
    tags: anxiety, worry
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place
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    Corrie ten Boom
    “Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”
    ― Corrie Ten Boom
    tags: prayer
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    Lynn Austin
    “Happiness is something that comes from our own hearts, not from other people.”
    ― Lynn Austin, While We're Far Apart:
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    Lynn Austin
    “That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.”
    ― Lynn Austin, Wonderland Creek
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    L.M. Montgomery
    “After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.”
    ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
    tags: home, inspirational, pearls, pleasures, simple
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