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“To be honest, I think I lost myself for a little while. Plus, my parents were against it. Everyone was.” “Of course they were,” her uncle said, standing up. “You’ve been shrugging off the house they built around you since you wrote that
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“To love God more is never to love people less. It’s to love people best. It’s to relieve them of the responsibility of being your false Christ. It’s to keep their sins against you from being unforgivable and your sins against them from being ignorable. It’s to guard them from our mean-streaks and strong human tendencies to respond to disappointment with punishment. It’s to keep the people close by from cutting their wrists on the razor-sharp blades of our insecurities. It’s to dull the edge of our cravings to be adored. It’s to untie the double knots of codependency. It’s to let the affirmations of others be the overflow and not the essential source of our emotional survival. To love God is to guard man.”
― Audacious
― Audacious
Emily’s 2025 Year in Books
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2,051 books
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974 books
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879 books
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228 books
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