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“When people love each other, they are content with very little. When we have light and joy in our hearts, we don't need material wealth. The most loving communities are often the poorest. If our own life is luxurious and wasteful, we can't approach poor people. If we love people, we want to identify with them and share with them.”
― Community and Growth
― Community and Growth
“Our secularized postmodern culture has built the concepts of self-creation and self-healing into a house and wants you to take up residence in it. But because the house lacks a foundation, it will fall. It’s just a matter of time.”
― Healing What You Can't Erase: Transform Your Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health from the Inside Out
― Healing What You Can't Erase: Transform Your Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Health from the Inside Out
“We have been told the lie ever since we can remember: human beings are basically nice and good. Everyone is born equal and innocent and self-sufficient. The world is a pleasant, harmless place. We are born free. If we are in chains now, it is someone’s fault, and we can correct it with just a little more intelligence or effort or time.”
― A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
― A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society
“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
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yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
―
“Christian spirituality involves a transformation of the self that occurs only when God and self are both deeply known. Both, therefore, have an important place in Christian spirituality. There is no deep knowing of God without a deep knowing of self, and no deep knowing of self without a deep knowing of God. John Calvin wrote, “Nearly the whole of sacred doctrine consists in these two parts: knowledge of God and of ourselves.”3”
― The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery
― The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery
Frances’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Frances’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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24 friends
461 books
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742 books
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65 friends
435 books
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92 books
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48 books
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73 friends
493 books
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104 friends
20 books
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55 friends
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