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A hardback borrowed from my Mum. Fascinating! Here is the best reason to read it, quoting from the book: "Satan need not convince us that Heaven doesn't exist. He need only convince us that Heaven is a place of boring, unearthly existence. If we beli
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"Still a fascinating book, with short, easy-to-read chapters. My delay in finishing this book in no way detracts from the wonder I am experiencing from it." — Jan 10, 2017 05:56AM
"Still a fascinating book, with short, easy-to-read chapters. My delay in finishing this book in no way detracts from the wonder I am experiencing from it." — Jan 10, 2017 05:56AM
“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real.”
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“No matter how nice the place is where you live, you need to experience life and the world.”
― MY STEVE
― MY STEVE
“My books promised me that life wasn’t just made up of workday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.”
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“Each of our lives is a Shakespearean drama raised to the thousandth degree.”
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“8But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and t a thousand years as one day. 9 u The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise v as some count slowness, but w is patient toward you, [1] x not wishing that any should perish, but y that all should reach repentance. 10But z the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then a the heavens will pass away with a roar, and b the heavenly bodies [2] will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed. [3] 11Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, c what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 d waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and e the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn! 13But according to his promise we are waiting for f new heavens and a new earth g in which righteousness dwells.”
― Holy Bible: English Standard Version
― Holy Bible: English Standard Version
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