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7 Ways to Pray: Time-Tested Practices for Encountering God

by Amy Boucher Pye (Goodreads Author)

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Philippa said: " This book is a gem. Like many Christians, I’ve read quite a few books on prayer. Some of those books can be slightly daunting: you have to take a deep breath before plunging in, even though you know you’re going to find spiritual treasure.

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Oct 16, 2021 05:52AM · see review

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“Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.”
― Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

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“I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.”
― Rebecca West, The Young Rebecca: Writings, 1911-1917

tags: clichés, empowerment, feminism, opinions, women, womens-liberation

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