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“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
― The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses
― The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses
“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
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“A motion picture, or music, or television, they have to maintain a certain decorum in order to be broadcast to a vast audience. Other forms of mass media cost too much to produce a risk reaching only a limited audience. Only one person. But a book. . . . A book is cheap to print and bind. A book is as private and consensual as sex. A book takes time and effort to consume - something that gives a reader every chance to walk away. Actually, so few people make the effort to read that it's difficult to call books a "mass medium." No one really gives a damn about books. No one has bothered to ban a book in decades.”
― Haunted
― Haunted
“Sometimes the darkest challenges, the most difficult lessons, hold the greates gems of light.”
― Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
― Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
“Humour is, in fact, a prelude to faith; and laughter is the beginning of prayer. Laughter must be heard in the outer courts of religion, and the echoes of it should resound in the sanctuary; but there is no laughter in the holy of holies. There laughter is swallowed up in prayer and humour is fulfilled by faith.
The intimate relation between humour and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. ... Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.”
― Discerning the Signs of the Times: Sermons for Today and Tomorrow
The intimate relation between humour and faith is derived from the fact that both deal with the incongruities of our existence. ... Laughter is our reaction to immediate incongruities and those which do not affect us essentially. Faith is the only possible response to the ultimate incongruities of existence, which threaten the very meaning of our life.”
― Discerning the Signs of the Times: Sermons for Today and Tomorrow
Kristin’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Kristin’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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929 books
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349 books
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880 books
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484 books
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124 books
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207 books
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107 books
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