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“Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice.”
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“Our spiritual character is formed as much by what we endure and what is taken from us as it is by our achievements and our conscious choices.”
― Flannery O'Connor: Spiritual Writings
― Flannery O'Connor: Spiritual Writings
“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Prayer
― Prayer
“I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.”
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
― The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
Holly’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Holly’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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131 friends
472 books
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336 books
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48 books
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496 books
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407 books
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240 books
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370 books
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