Bethany Marks

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Bethany is Currently Reading

Bethany Marks is currently reading

My Heart Belongs on Mackinac Island (Mackinac Island Romances #1)

by Carrie Fancett Pagels (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: christian, ebooks, historical-fiction, kindle-unlimited, romance-historical, currently-reading

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Nov 30, 2025 11:22PM

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The Royal Artisan (Queen Esther's Court, #2)

by Tessa Afshar (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: currently-reading, audio-books, biblical-fiction, christian, culture-jew, historical-fiction, romance-historical

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Nov 10, 2025 10:48PM

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The Wedding People

by Alison Espach

bookshelves: currently-reading, borrowed-don-t-own-it

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Oct 24, 2025 11:47PM

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“A woman needs to feel safe in love. She needs to know her husband accepts everything about her and still loves her. To be known through and through, including the failures of her past, the shortcomings of her character, and still be loved, that's the Promised Land of a woman's heart! That's where she finds rest.”
― Tessa Afshar, Pearl in the Sand

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: aliteracy, books, classic, humor

51584 likes

“The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us. ”
― A. W. Tozer

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“The question shouldn't be "Why are you, a Christian, here in a death camp, condemned for trying to save Jews?' The real question is "Why aren't all the Christians here?”
― Joel C. Rosenberg, The Auschwitz Escape

tags: auschwitz, christians, holocaust, jews, judaism

90 likes

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: love

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