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I am sorry Jane Austen. I just hate this book. Her other books are so much better. These characters had no heart or soul to them. They were just dramatic when they didn't need to be. Long pointless gossipy rants. Not my thing.
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"This book is unbearably slow and full of nonsense conversations and speculations that don't end up mattering at all. Yes, Mrs. Bates is annoying. We get it. Just say she "rattled on about nothing, not letting anybody else speak for the duration of an hour." instead of making us sit through the ordeal with Emma. 😅 From what I remember of the movies and series, this story really only picks up at the very end." — Oct 10, 2019 07:47PM
"This book is unbearably slow and full of nonsense conversations and speculations that don't end up mattering at all. Yes, Mrs. Bates is annoying. We get it. Just say she "rattled on about nothing, not letting anybody else speak for the duration of an hour." instead of making us sit through the ordeal with Emma. 😅 From what I remember of the movies and series, this story really only picks up at the very end." — Oct 10, 2019 07:47PM
“My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else.
Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.”
― The Problem of Pain
Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.”
― The Problem of Pain
“On the one hand, if God is wiser than we His judgement must differ from ours on many things, and not least on good and evil. What seems to us good may therefore not be good in His eyes, and what seems to us evil may not be evil.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
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