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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“And so I try to be kind to everything I see, and in everything I see, I see him.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.”
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“You have not chosen one another, but I have chosen you for one another.”
― Four Loves
― Four Loves
“In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not raised at a first meeting--any of these chances might have kept us apart. But, for a Christian, there are, strictly speaking no chances. A secret master of ceremonies has been at work. Christ, who said to the disciples, "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you," can truly say to every group of Christian friends, "Ye have not chosen one another but I have chosen you for one another." The friendship is not a reward for our discriminating and good taste in finding one another out. It is the instrument by which God reveals to each of us the beauties of others.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
Emma’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Emma’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
267 books
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9 friends
503 books
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11 friends
137 books
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24 friends
17 books
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6 friends
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