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Lara is Currently Reading

Lara is currently reading

Songs of Suffering: 25 Hymns and Devotions for Weary Souls

by Joni Eareckson Tada

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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)

by C.S. Lewis

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Feb 14, 2026 04:39PM

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Holes (Holes, #1)

by Louis Sachar (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 28, 2026 09:47AM

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Lara’s Quotes

“We are all broken—that’s how the light gets in.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: misattributed-ernest-hemingway, misattributed-leonard-cohen

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“O Shepherd. You said you would make my feet like hinds' feet and set me upon High Places".

"Well", he answered "the only way to develop hinds' feet is to go by the paths which the hinds use.”
― Hannah Hurnard, Hinds' Feet on High Places

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“It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

tags: faults, idleness, vanity

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“Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.”
― C.S. Lewis, Letters of C. S. Lewis

tags: c-s-lewis, christ, christianity, faith, god, hope, hopeless, hopelessness, letter, seek, seeking, theology

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“For a human to win, it is not necessary for a horse to lose. You should not have to take things away from a horse or break him in fragments in order to train him; rather you should add to the horse. The goal should be making, not breaking.”
― Cherry Hill, Making, Not Breaking: The First Year Under Saddle

tags: animals, horses

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