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“If God started a work in you, you can be sure he intends to complete it. Your hang-ups and mess-ups don’t take him by surprise. At no point in the process does he say, “This is more than I expected. You are in worse shape than I thought. I’d better cut my losses and give up on you.”
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― How's Your Soul?: Why Everything that Matters Starts with the Inside You
“He had taught her to love reading, one of the greatest gifts a parent could give a child, and in doing so, he had opened the world to her.”
― The Book of Lost Names
― The Book of Lost Names
“When we are young, we think ourselves the first to have each feeling in the world.”
― Circe
― Circe
“If you are in Christ, you have a Friend who, in your sorrow, will never lob down a pep talk from heaven. He cannot bear to hold himself at a distance. Nothing can hold him back. His heart is too bound up with yours.”
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“As unappreciatingly as a duck might shake champagne from its back, the Traveling Salesman shrugged the compliment from his shoulders.”
― The Indiscreet Letter - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott [ 75Th Anniversary & Collectors Edition - Penguin Deluxe ]
― The Indiscreet Letter - Eleanor Hallowell Abbott [ 75Th Anniversary & Collectors Edition - Penguin Deluxe ]
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