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Closet Devotions (Series Q)

by Richard Rambuss

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Six Books on the Priesthood (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press Popular Patristics Series)

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The Ambassadors

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“You are not the last dream of my soul.

You are the first dream, the only dream I ever was unable to stop myself from dreaming. You are the first dream of my soul, and from that dream I hope will come all other dreams, a lifetime’s worth.”
― Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince

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“We violate no body so much as our own: towards it we display the perversity of the cat that constantly rips its wounds open.”
― V.S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men

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“I have become a collapsing star, pulling everything around it, even the light, into an ever-expanding void.”
― Twan Eng Tan, The Garden of Evening Mists

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“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: advice-for-daily-living, inspirational, positive-attitude

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“If I do not feel a sense of joy in God's creation, if I forget to offer the world back to God with thankfulness, I have advanced very little upon the Way. I have not yet learnt to be truly human. For it is only through thanksgiving that I can become myself.”
― Kallistos Ware, The Orthodox Way

tags: gratitude, orthodoxy, thankfulness

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