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Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)

by Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)

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Teaching to Change Lives: Seven Proven Ways to Make Your Teaching Come Alive

by Howard G. Hendricks

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Garden City: Work, Rest, and the Art of Being Human.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“This is God’s curse on slavery!—a bitter, bitter, most accursed thing!—a curse to the master and a curse to the slave! I was a fool to think I could make anything good out of such a deadly evil.

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“I love mankind ... it's people I can't stand!!”
― Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people

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“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”
― Jack London

tags: days, existence, function, living, mankind, wasting-time

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“Tim Keller writes, “When the church as a whole is no longer seen as speaking to questions that transcend politics, and when it is no longer united by a common faith that transcends politics, then the world sees strong evidence that Nietzsche, Freud, and Marx were right, that religion is really just a cover for people wanting to get their way in the world.”13”
― Andy Stanley, Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church

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“Five years from now, our “everybody needs to know” opinions will be all but irrelevant and forgotten. But the damage to the body will be done. And you will have contributed.”
― Andy Stanley, Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church

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“our nation’s challenges do not stem from the church’s inability to convince unbelievers to behave like believers. Our challenges stem from the church’s inability to inspire believers to behave like believers.”
― Andy Stanley, Not in It to Win It: Why Choosing Sides Sidelines The Church

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