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“When the world hates you, remember that it hated me first. If you belonged to the world, it would love you. But you do not belong to the world. I have brought you out of the world, and that is why it hates you.”
“When you’re a Christian,” she told me, “you obey God because you want to, because He’s changing you, because He’s made you a new person on the inside. It’s not like you just go out and sin as much as you like and don’t worry about it. But at the same time, you don’t need to do anything to make God love you.”
― Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus
― Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus
“Language is one of the few common experiences humanity has. Not all of us can walk; not all of us can sing; not all of us like pickles. But we all have an inborn desire to communicate why we can’t walk or sing or stomach pickles. To do that, we use our language, a vast index of words and their meanings we’ve acquired, like linguistic hoarders, throughout our lives. We eventually come to a place where we can look another person in the eye and say, or write, or sign, “I don’t do pickles.”
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
“If you choose to say ‘God can give a creature free will and at the same time withhold free will from it’, you have not succeeded in saying anything about God: meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ‘God can’. It remains true that all things are possible with God: the intrinsic impossibilities are not things but nonentities.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“your own prejudices are the millstone around your neck.”
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
“For the first time in my life, I felt I could truly see through God’s eyes and feel what He felt. I could see the homeless and feel the sting of reproach in which they lived their lives. I could see my brother striving for acceptance and love from my father and feeling the pain of his constant rejection. I could see the popular girls at school and feel their emptiness and desire to have more than outward beauty. I could see creation—the flowers, the birds in the air, the smell of the morning dew—and feel the joy of my Father in heaven delighting in His creation. This compassion was definitely something I had never experienced before until my commitment to follow Christ.”
― Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus
― Hiding in the Light: Why I Risked Everything to Leave Islam and Follow Jesus
Dakota’s 2025 Year in Books
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534 books
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101 friends
692 books
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113 books
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920 books
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282 books
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163 books
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650 books
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285 books
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