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“But it looked as if Brother Edvin had become so wrinkled simply from smiling at people. Kristin thought she had never seen anyone who looked so cheerful or so kind. He seemed to carry within him a luminous and secret joy, and she was able to share it whenever he spoke.”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
― Kristin Lavransdatter
“Are you so arrogant that you think yourself capable of sinning so badly that God’s mercy is not great enough? . . .”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
― Kristin Lavransdatter
“For I've realized more and more with each year I've lived: There is no worthier work for the person who has been geared with the ability to see even a small part of God's mercy than to serve Him and to keep vigil and to pray for those people whose sight is still clouded by the shadow of worldly matters.”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
― Kristin Lavransdatter
“All that had happened and would happen was meant to be. Everything happens as it is meant to be.”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
― Kristin Lavransdatter
“On her death bed: “And her tears burst forth in a swift stream, for it seemed to her that never before had she understood to the full what it betokened. The life that ring had wed her to, that she had complained against, had murmured at, had raged at and defied – none the less she had loved it so, joyed in it so, both in good days and evil, that not one day had there been when ‘twould not have seemed hard to give it back to God, nor one grief that she could have forgone without regret—”
― The Cross
― The Cross
Austin’s 2025 Year in Books
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961 friends
209 books
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695 books
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76 books
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308 books
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328 books
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397 books
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44 books
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