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City of God

by Augustine of Hippo

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What Beauty There Is

by Cory Anderson (Goodreads Author)

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Holy Bible: English Standard Version (ESV)

by Anonymous

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"Doing a challenge to read the Bible in a month!" — Jul 07, 2025 11:20PM

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Elsey’s Quotes

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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“You have to believe him, because he's going to have your entire palace up in arms and your court in chaos and every member of it from the barons to the boot cleaners coming to you for his blood, and you are going to have to deal with it."
Attolia smiled. "You make him sound like more trouble than he is worth.
"No," said Eddis thoughtfully. "Never more than he is worth.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

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“If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

tags: inspirational

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“...her queen danced like a flame in the wind, and the mercurial king like the weight at the center of the earth...”
― Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

tags: attolia

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“Scripture is the grammar textbook for the language of God, instructing us clearly in the patterns of meaning and the rules by which we are enabled to read everything else.”
― Joe Rigney, The Things of Earth: Treasuring God by Enjoying His Gifts by Joe Rigney

tags: analogy, bible, metaphor, natural-revelation, reading-life, scripture, special-revelation

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