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“Oftentimes it’s easier for lunatics to attract impassioned followers than it is for sensible people to get people to listen to reason. People are often more willing to believe lies than the truth. Lies can be made to sound pleasant. The
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I read fantasy so I don’t have to emotionally invest in characters. I enjoy staying in my imagination and revel in the story then I can put the book down and walk away. Even with TG’s story formula he found ways to worm wisdom into my reality. This nugget is a prime example.
“Duty is heavy as a mountain, death is light as a feather.”
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“The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain.”
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“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
― A Ring of Endless Light
― A Ring of Endless Light
“Believing takes practice.”
― A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
― A Wrinkle in Time: With Related Readings
“I will have nothing to do with a God who cares only occasionally. I need a God who is with us always, everywhere, in the deepest depths as well as the highest heights. It is when things go wrong, when good things do not happen, when our prayers seem to have been lost, that God is most present. We do not need the sheltering wings when things go smoothly. We are closest to God in the darkness, stumbling along blindly.”
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