Matthew

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Matthew is Currently Reading

Matthew is currently reading

The Dark Secret of Weatherend

by John Bellairs

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The Eyes of the Dragon

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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Alien: The Original Screenplay (2020) #3 (of 5)

by Cristiano Seixas

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Matthew’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions

Faith Unraveled: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask Questions by Rachel Held Evans

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The problem with fundamentalism is that it can’t adapt to change. When you count each one of your beliefs as absolutely essential, change is never an option. When change is never an option, you have to hope that the world stays exactly as ...more

Faith Shift: Finding Your Way Forward When Everything You Believe Is Coming Apart

by Kathy Escobar

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Matthew’s Quotes

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading

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“Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit”
― Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time

tags: inspiration, life

885 likes

“This is where you can find your soul if you dare. Where you can touch that part of you that you've never dared look at before. Do not come here and ask me to show you how to draw a face. Ask me to help you find the wind.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

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“A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.”
― Madeleine L'Engle

tags: books, fire, star, universe

4490 likes

“My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

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