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“While other worldviews lead us to sit in the midst of life’s joys, foreseeing the coming sorrows, Christianity empowers its people to sit in the midst of this world’s sorrows, tasting the coming joy.”
― Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
― Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
“Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.”
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“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
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“Violence is what we get when we do not know what else to do with our suffering.”
― Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
― Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit
“He thought about history, the hidden human anxieties behind momentous events. The tiny trivial things that were probably bothering Einstein or Darwin or Newton as they formulated their theories: arguments with the landlady, maybe, or concern over a blocked fireplace. The pilots who bombed Dresden, fretting over a phrase in a letter from back home: What did she mean by that? Or what about Columbus, when he was sailing toward the New Land … who knows what was on his mind? The last words spoken to him by an old friend, perhaps, a person not even remembered in history books …”
― The Book of Strange New Things
― The Book of Strange New Things
Phil’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Phil’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
771 books
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283 books
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106 friends
2,911 books
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1,168 books
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38 friends
958 books
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119 friends
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