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“What’s happened to you, Daniel?” she asked, seeming more annoyed than curious. “I became a Christian,” he said, “a follower of Jesus,” and as soon as the words left his mouth, his head became clearer.”
― If I Gained the World
― If I Gained the World
“See there, Auguste! the poorest, meanest soul on our place will be living when all those stars are gone for ever--will live as long as God lives!”
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
“She wondered if forgiveness was more like peeling an onion than breaking an egg. That had been top-layer forgiveness. This would be deep forgiveness, boring down to the bedrock, to the taproot, to the core of who she was and what Daniel had done.”
― If I Gained the World
― If I Gained the World
“terrible than the ordeal of a fiery death.”
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
“When Elizabeth came to the English throne, a number of men and women, who were awaiting martyrdom under Mary, were liberated. Animated by the spirit of Ridley and Latimer, they would have kissed the faggots and embraced the stake. Yet, in the years that followed, some of them lapsed into indifference, went the way of the world, and named the name of Christ no more. The ordeal of life proved more potent and more”
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
― A Handful of Stars: Texts That Have Moved Great Minds
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