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Elyse is Currently Reading

Elyse Burgess is currently reading

The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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"Can confirm this is the best book of the trilogy in case there was ever any doubt" — Nov 29, 2025 09:26AM

Dec 20, 2023 02:05PM

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Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

by Madeleine L'Engle

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""When the artist is a servant of the work, the work is better than the artist." How is she so GOOD" — Jul 20, 2025 09:25AM

Jul 20, 2025 09:21AM

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Deeper: Real Change for Real Sinners

by Dane C. Ortlund

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Jan 17, 2025 07:13PM

Elyse’s Quotes

“I saw thee ne'er before;
I see thee never more;
But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one,
Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes

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“I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

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“God doesn't love me because of what I can do for him. He just loves me - even when I've done nothing at all.”
― Phil Vischer, Me, Myself & Bob: A True Story About God, Dreams, and Talking Vegetables

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“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
― C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

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“Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of painful thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill.”
― George MacDonald, Phantastes

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