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"Finished Part I, wow what a book. I was completely enthralled. Amazing how Frankl is able to convey these horrific scenes in a way that does not overwhelm with misery. Everything is for a purpose, an idea that he is putting forth and his own experiences are the evidence. Powerful and profound." — Jun 13, 2026 07:28AM
"Finished Part I, wow what a book. I was completely enthralled. Amazing how Frankl is able to convey these horrific scenes in a way that does not overwhelm with misery. Everything is for a purpose, an idea that he is putting forth and his own experiences are the evidence. Powerful and profound." — Jun 13, 2026 07:28AM
Ben Eastman
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by F.A. Forbes
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"Learning a lot about Athanasius, although it reads more as a collection of stories than a true Life of the Saint." — May 18, 2026 05:33AM
"Learning a lot about Athanasius, although it reads more as a collection of stories than a true Life of the Saint." — May 18, 2026 05:33AM
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. —Charles Lamb
“Narnia, held captive by the “post-Christian” Telmarines, cannot be rescued and renewed until Peter and Edmund exercise their masculine gifts to defeat the Telmarine army while Susan and Lucy exercise their feminine gifts to wake up the trees from their deep slumber.”
― A to Z with C. S. Lewis
― A to Z with C. S. Lewis
“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”
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“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”
― The Great Gatsby
― The Great Gatsby
“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.”
― The Great Divorce
― The Great Divorce
“Some change their philosophy of life with every book they read: one book sells them on Freud, the next on Marx; materialists one year, idealists the next; cynics for another period, and Eberals for still another. They have their quivers full of arrows but no fixed target. As no game makes the hunter tired of the sport, so the want of destiny makes the mind bored with life.”
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