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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.
“The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.”
― Murder in the Bastille
― Murder in the Bastille
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
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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
“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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“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
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Q&A with Elizabeth J. Andrew
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— last activity Nov 10, 2011 01:27PM
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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