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Kim is Currently Reading

Kim Padan is currently reading

The Karamazov Brothers

by Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Feb 22, 2026 02:28PM

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God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith

by Robert Sarah

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Encountering Signs of Faith: My Unexpected Journey with Sacramentals, the Saints, and the Abundant Grace of God

by Allison Gingras (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: catholic, memoir, non-fiction, prayer, currently-reading

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Kim’s Quotes

“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

tags: friends, friendship, gratitude

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“When Whistler was complimented on the portrait of his mother, he said, “You know how it is; one tries to make one’s Mummy just as nice as he can.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

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“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
― Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła)

tags: christianity, depression, easter, joy, religion, spirituality

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“as the mother knows the needs better than the babe, so the Blessed Mother understands our cries and worries and knows them better than we know ourselves.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, World’s First Love, The

tags: blessed-virgin-mary, catholic, catholicism

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“She existed in the Divine Mind as an Eternal Thought before there were any mothers. She is the Mother of mothers—she is the world’s first love.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, The World's First Love: Mary, Mother of God

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