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Notorious Nineteen (Stephanie Plum, #19)

by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)

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Apr 16, 2013 08:51PM

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My Beloved World

by Sonia Sotomayor

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“we long for our churches to be safe places to doubt, to ask questions, and to tell the truth, even when it’s uncomfortable.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”
― Garth Stein, The Art of Racing in the Rain

tags: death, life, philosophy

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“In the company of these friends, questions and doubts were met with sympathy, not fear. No one felt the need to correct or understand or approve. We just listened, and it was sacred.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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“Jesus did not begin to be loved at the moment of his baptism, nor did he cease to be loved when his baptism became a memory. Baptism simply named the reality of his existing and unending belovedness.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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“It’s just death and resurrection, over and over again, day after day, as God reaches down into our deepest graves and with the same power that raised Jesus from the dead wrests us from our pride, our apathy, our fear, our prejudice, our anger, our hurt, and our despair. Most days I don’t know which is harder for me to believe: that God reanimated the brain functions of a man three days dead, or that God can bring back to life all the beautiful things we have killed. Both seem pretty unlikely to me.”
― Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

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