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Like many of the men in the Great Migration and like many emigrant men in general, he was setting out alone. He would scout out the New World on his own and get situated before sending for anyone else.
“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
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“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
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“The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.”
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
― Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”
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Q&A with Elizabeth J. Andrew
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Let's swap favorite titles, especially spiritual memoirs, literary novels with spiritual themes, and theological/spiritual writing with a radical, eco ...more
The Spiritual Memoir Group
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This group is for persons interested in the genre of the spiritual memoir. Think Augustine, Thomas Merton, Anne Lamott, and Kathleen Norris to name a ...more
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