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One of my favorite books of all time. As a person in the medical field it really wrestles with some tough questions that are so useful to me. I loved how the author wove the different cultural beliefs and made it so personal with the telling of one c
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“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― The Diary of a Young Girl
― The Diary of a Young Girl
“No Man Is An Island; Every Book Is A World.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“God loves human beings. God loves the world. Not an ideal human, but human beings as they are; not an ideal world, but the real world. What we find repulsive in their opposition to God, what we shrink back from with pain and hostility, namely, real human beings, the real world, this is for God the ground of unfathomable love.”
― A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer
― A Year with Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“A place ain’t a place without a bookstore,”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
“It is the secret fear that we are unlovable that isolates us,” the passage goes, “but it is only because we are isolated that we think we are unlovable. Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down a road. And someday, you do not know when, he, or indeed she, will be there. You will be loved because for the first time in your life, you will truly not be alone. You will have chosen to not be alone.”
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
― The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
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