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Honor Thy Fathers: Recovering the Anti-Feminist Theology of the Reformers

by Zachary M. Garris (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, theology, history

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Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child

by Anthony Esolen (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: education, about-children, currently-reading

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Kelly’s Quotes

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O'Connor

tags: truth

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“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

tags: atticus-finch, courage

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

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“In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new and untried ... nothing is so warming and companionable.”
― Elizabeth Goudge

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