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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.
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
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“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
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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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“One person’s pain doesn’t negate another’s. Our heartaches are not competition, but the bridge to empathy. So that we can look at one another and know that on some level, we understand. That’s one beautiful thing about grief, I think. That sometimes, we can find someone in the world to look at from the other side of the bridge of our torments and know that we are not alone.”
― Glow
― Glow
“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
Sally’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Sally’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
46 books
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36 friends
945 books
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140 friends
385 books
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20 friends
2,483 books
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84 friends
243 books
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80 friends
1,190 books
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136 friends
32 books
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10 friends
280 books
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26 friends
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