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Work and Worship: Reconnecting Our Labor and Liturgy

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What the River Knows (Secrets of the Nile, #1)

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“Her ballad did nothing to make the serpants lovely. Her ballad hid nothing of their dread. But the music itself spoke of faith and certainty; the melody announced the presence of God.”
― Walter Wangerin Jr., The Book of the Dun Cow

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“But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

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“some of us are given too much to bear, and this burden is made worse by the hidden nature of that toll, a toll that others cannot even begin to guess at.”
― Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

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“The aim and final reason of all music should be none else but the glory of God and refreshing the soul. Where this is not observed there will be no music, but only a devilish hubbub.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach

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“But inside him, in the place that only books could touch, there remained both a deep unknowing and the deepest, most trenchant pain.”
― Natalie Jenner, The Jane Austen Society

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