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Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

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Les Miserables

by Victor Hugo

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The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

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William Alderman said: " This book changed my life by taking me deeper with Gospel and see God’s love for me. This makes modern theology books worth hardly anything.

Top 10 theology books I have ever read and they were only pastoral letters from prison. I want to be more lik ...more "

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William’s Quotes

“When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks. When you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks. When you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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“Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself?”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures

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“But lament is different. The practice of lament—the kind that is biblical, honest, and redemptive—is not as natural for us, because every lament is a prayer. A statement of faith. Lament is the honest cry of a hurting heart wrestling with the paradox of pain and the promise of God’s goodness.”
― Mark Vroegop, Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy: Discovering the Grace of Lament

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“It is because we belong to Him that the devil will do his utmost to disturb and upset us. He cannot rob us of our salvation, thank God, but while he cannot rob us of our salvation he can make us miserable. He can, if we are foolish enough to listen to him, seriously limit our enjoyment of our salvation.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures

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“go directly to Him and seek His face, as the little child who is miserable and unhappy because somebody else has taken or broken his toy, runs to its father or its mother. So if you and I find ourselves afflicted by this condition, there is only one thing to do, it is to go to Him, If you seek the Lord Jesus Christ and find Him there is no need to worry about your happiness and your joy. He is our joy and our happiness, even as He is our peace. He is life, He is everything. So avoid the incitements and the temptations of Satan to give feelings this great prominence at the centre. Put at the centre the only One who has a right to be there, the Lord of Glory, Who so loved you that He went to the Cross and bore the punishment and the shame of your sins and died for you. Seek Him, seek His face, and all other things shall be added unto you.”
― D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures

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