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Sally Poe
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His grief was a grim specter on the other side of a shut door. And if he opened that door, he’d be consumed.
“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
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“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
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“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
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Sally’s 2025 Year in Books
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86 friends
1,192 books
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133 books
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477 books
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255 books
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745 books
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436 books
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948 books
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