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The Peacock and the Sparrow

by I.S. Berry (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 21, 2025 10:12AM

“Perhaps our loneliness can never be filled with even the best of human love. Maybe the longing for human love is just the beginning, and the longing for God is always the end.”
― Susan E. Isaacs, Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir

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“There's a very simple reason why quality relationships are scarce: we live in a fallen world, and it sucks.”
― Susan E. Isaacs, Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir

tags: fallen-world, love, relationships, sin

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“I thought I was over him! So why did my heart still rip? Why did I still feel this sorrow? I got this strange sensation that God was with me. And he was angry. He was very angry--not at me and not at Jack. God was angry at the pain I was going through. I wondered if that was why God hated sin, because of the destruction it caused. For a moment I felt awe for a God who loved me enough to hate the things that hurt me without hating me for causing them.”
― Susan E. Isaacs, Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir

tags: break-ups, exes, god-s-love, life, missing-someone, sin, sorrow

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“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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“Introversion- along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness- is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology. Introverts living in the Extrovert Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.”
― Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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