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“Becoming like Jesus is as much as about having a relaxed and joyful heart as it is about believing and doing the right thing, as much about proper energy as about proper truth.”
― The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality
― The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality
“When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“While writing is like a joyful release, editing is a prison where the bars are my former intentions and the abusive warden my own neuroticism.”
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“True restfulness, though, is a form of awareness, a way of being in life. It is living ordinary life with a sense of ease, gratitude, appreciation, peace and prayer. We are restful when ordinary life is enough.”
― The Shattered Lantern: Rediscovering a Felt Presence of God
― The Shattered Lantern: Rediscovering a Felt Presence of God
“Write a book,” he told me, “that I can give to my adult children to explain why I still believe in God and why I still go to church—and that I can read on days when I am no longer sure why I believe or go to church.”
― The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality
― The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality
Blanchetta’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Blanchetta’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Adult Fiction, Art, Book Club, Christian, Classics, Cookbooks, Fantasy, Fiction, Memoir, Mystery, Philosophy, Poetry, Romance, Travel, and Young-adult
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