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The Zorg: A Tale of Greed and Murder That Inspired the Abolition of Slavery

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Financial Adulting: Everything You Need to Be a Financially Confident and Conscious Adult

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“Keep my heart tender (2 Kings 22:19), easily impressed with your word and providence, touched with an affectionate concern for your glory, and sensitive to every impulse of your Spirit.”
― Robert Elmer, Piercing Heaven: Prayers of the Puritans

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“If you are in Christ, you have a Friend who, in your sorrow, will never lob down a pep talk from heaven. He cannot bear to hold himself at a distance. Nothing can hold him back. His heart is too bound up with yours.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

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“We just need to be kinder to ourselves. If we treated ourselves the way we treated our best friend, can you imagine how much better off we would be?”
― Meghan Markle

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“The inherent danger of the Sculpted Self is to become so like those around you, so like your sculpting community, that you lose your own distinctiveness. A bland conformity. A squashing down of difference. A denial that can lead easily to the loss of self-definition and a harsh rejection of anyone who does not fit.”
― Joel McKerrow, Woven: A Faith for the Dissatisfied

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“The cumulative testimony of the four Gospels is that when Jesus Christ sees the fallenness of the world all about him, his deepest impulse, his most natural instinct, is to move toward that sin and suffering, not away from it.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

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