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Just Ruth
http://www.becauseibelieveblog.com
“Human knowledge is never contained in one person. It grows from the relationships we create between each other and the world, and still it is never complete.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“The physician’s duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face, and make sense of, their own existence.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“My "Christianity" was once again just the American religion of work hard, do good, feel good, and maybe God will say, "We good.”
― Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
― Jesus > Religion: Why He Is So Much Better Than Trying Harder, Doing More, and Being Good Enough
“I began to realize that coming in such close contact with my own mortality had changed both nothing and everything. Before my cancer was diagnosed, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. After the diagnosis, I knew that someday I would die, but I didn’t know when. But now I knew it acutely. The problem wasn’t really a scientific one. The fact of death is unsettling. Yet there is no other way to live.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
“That message is simple: When you come to one of the many moments in life when you must give an account of yourself, provide a ledger of what you have been, and done, and meant to the world, do not, I pray, discount that you filled a dying man’s days with a sated joy, a joy unknown to me in all my prior years, a joy that does not hunger for more and more, but rests, satisfied. In this time, right now, that is an enormous thing.”
― When Breath Becomes Air
― When Breath Becomes Air
Just Ruth’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Just Ruth’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Children's, Christian, Classics, Comics, Contemporary, Crime, Memoir, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, and Thriller
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