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When We Were Brilliant

by Lynn Cullen (Goodreads Author)

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“Life is complicated. It's a form of joy to have no other choice.”
― M.O. Walsh

tags: choice, joy, life

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“I've been offered proof of God's existence at regular intervals in my life through experiences so profound they've given goose bumps to atheists.”
― Jennifer Skiff, God Stories: Inspiring Encounters with the Divine

tags: atheist, divine, divine-intervention, god, profound-realizations, proof-of-god

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“She wasn’t just a faithful friend, she was the closest thing to heaven I allowed myself to know. Through her I received joy in my heart and began to love others.”
― Jennifer Skiff, The Divinity of Dogs: True Stories of Miracles Inspired by Man's Best Friend

tags: faithful, faithfulness, friendship, heaven, joy, joyfulness, love

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“Perhaps, that is the way of friends, to love one another for their imperfections, not despite them.”
― Scott Wilbanks, The Lemoncholy Life of Annie Aster

tags: friendship, imperfection, imperfections, love

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“I encourage anyone who has gone through hardships to look back through their life’s chapters and see what can be turned into a book. For you never know what heartache God, one day, can turn into a redemptive story.”
― Jolina Petersheim

tags: biography, god, hardships, heartache, inspirational, memoir, redemption, shunning

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