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“The peaceable doctrine of Christ teaches to obey and to suffer for the word of God, and to remit the vengeance and the defense of the word to God, who is mighty and able to defend it.”
― The Obedience of a Christian Man
― The Obedience of a Christian Man
“And as for enduring our pain, God does not rejoice in it like a tyrant; but He pities us, and as it were, He mourns with us, and is always ready and at hand to help us if we call, just as a merciful father and a kind mother would be.”
― The Obedience of a Christian Man
― The Obedience of a Christian Man
“You will see cause enough to love your enemy without respect to any reward, either in this life or the life to come -- but only because God would have it so, and Christ has deserved it.”
― The Obedience of a Christian Man
― The Obedience of a Christian Man
“it’s wise to regularly deny ourselves from getting what we want, whether through a practice as intense as fasting or as minor as picking the longest checkout line. That way when somebody else denies us from getting what we want, we don’t respond with anger. We’re already acclimated. We don’t have to get our way to be happy.”
― The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
― The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World
“I think all the good parts of us are connected on some level. The part that shares the last double chocolate chip cookie or donates to charity or gives a dollar to a street musician or becomes a candy striper or cries at Apple commercials or says I love you or I forgive you. I think that's God. God is the connection of the very best parts of us.”
― The Sun Is Also a Star
― The Sun Is Also a Star
Deborah’s 2025 Year in Books
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