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Being Elisabeth Elliot: The Authorized Biography: Elisabeth’s Later Years

by Ellen Vaughn

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Far as the Curse Is Found: The Covenant Story of Redemption

by Michael D. Williams

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Shelly said: " Did not really answer the questions I was hoping to have answered regarding covenant and OT/NT relationship. Interesting book, though, and a good introduction to the concept of covenant. "

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Feb 21, 2013 02:49PM · see review

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The American Revolution: Official National Park Service Handbook

by U.S. National Park Service

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Timothy Keller: His Spiritual and Intellectual Formation by Collin Hansen

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“The best way I can put it is that, before the change, I pored over the Bible, questioning and analyzing it. But after the change it was as if the Bible, or maybe Someone through the Bible, began poring over me, questioning and analyzing ...more

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Shelly’s Quotes

“I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”
― Woody Allen

tags: humor, reading, speed-reading, tolstoy

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“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from — my country, the place where I ought to have been born. Do you think it all meant nothing, all the longing? The longing for home? For indeed it now feels not like going, but like going back.”
― C. S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces

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“A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.”
― C.S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life

tags: atheism, reading, religion

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“Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky

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“I didn’t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity.”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: christianity

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