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Abraham Lincoln
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
Abraham Lincoln

Jane Hirshfield
“Poetry's work is the clarification and magnification of being.”
Jane Hirshfield

Flannery O'Connor
“All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.”
Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Luci Shaw
“I think of these desert years of mine, not of my choosing. Maybe if it were all smooth and comfortable, if my pride and professionalism were defining life for me, God's steel-quiet, penetrating word would have been lost in the babble and sheen of success.”
Luci Shaw

Stanley Hauerwas
“Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits necessary to learn the story of God.”
Stanley Hauerwas

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3,500 books | 934 friends

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858 books | 550 friends

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875 books | 275 friends

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2,147 books | 406 friends

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1,270 books | 323 friends

Nate Pe...
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