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When God tells Eve that Adam will “rule over her,” he is simply lamenting what is to come. God is not commanding it. His language is descriptive, not prescriptive. Adam naming Eve, putting her in her place, was neither what God ordained nor
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“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
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“Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.”
― Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
― Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature
“When God tells Eve that Adam will “rule over her,” he is simply lamenting what is to come. God is not commanding it. His language is descriptive, not prescriptive. Adam naming Eve, putting her in her place, was neither what God ordained nor desired. It is interesting that he names her for what he sees she is good for—having babies.”
― Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
― Subversive Sabbath: The Surprising Power of Rest in a Nonstop World
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Joy’s 2025 Year in Books
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