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“My life was an unending, unchanging midnight. It must, by necessity, always be midnight for me. So how was it possible that the sun was rising now, in the middle of my midnight?”
― Midnight Sun
― Midnight Sun
“It is a modern mistake to think that great personalities can grow without being rooted in the rich soil of the past, in the memory of great deeds and in fidelity to promises made across the generations. Civilization is founded on covenants that cannot be broken without consequence.”
― The Power of the Ring: The Spiritual Vision Behind the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
― The Power of the Ring: The Spiritual Vision Behind the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
“It was in fairy-stories that I first divined the potency of the words, and the wonder of the things, such as stone, and wood, and iron; tree and grass; house and fire; bread and wine.”
― On Fairy-Stories
― On Fairy-Stories
“The words we speak have a direct and definite effect upon our thoughts. Thoughts create words, for words are the vehicles of ideas. But words also affect thoughts and help to condition if not to create attitudes. In fact, what often passes for thinking starts with talk.”
― The Power of Positive Thinking
― The Power of Positive Thinking
“Perhaps romance always seemed a slightly foolish thing to everyone until one actually fell into it.”
― Midnight Sun
― Midnight Sun
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This group is dedicated to building a up a list of clean romance books. Not "Christian" or "Inspirational" (there are other groups for those), but goo ...more
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This is the reading club hosted by Colleen Houck, the author of the NYT bestselling series TIGER'S CURSE & the NYT bestselling novel REAWAKENED. Once ...more
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A discussion group and book club for fans of C. S. Lewis. I hope we'll touch on his three main thrusts: Christian apologetics, literary criticism, and ...more
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