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Emily is Currently Reading

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Blessed Are the Meek

by Zofia Kossak

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A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture

by Frederick Justus Knecht D.D.

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Emily’s Notes & Highlights

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How to Break Up with Your Phone, Revised Edition: The 30-Day Digital Detox Plan by Catherine Price

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Smartphones are amazing tools. But something about smartphones also makes us act like tools. Most of us find it hard to get through a meal or a movie or even a stoplight without pulling out our phones. On the rare occasions when we ...more

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Emily’s Quotes

“We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.”
― Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

tags: law

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“One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth.”
― Peter Kreeft, Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

tags: honesty, life, truth

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“We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.”
― Peter Kreeft, Pocket Handbook of Christian Apologetics

tags: apologetics, logic, philosophy, reason

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“If your life is Christ, then your death will be only more of Christ, forever. If your life is only Christlessness, then your death will be only more Christlessness, forever. That's not fundamentalism, that's the law of non-contradiction.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

tags: catholicism, christ, christianity, christlessness, christology, fundamentalism, jesus, jesus-christ, jesus-shock, philosophy, spirituality, theology

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“We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.”
― Peter Kreeft

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