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The Two Towers (The Lord of the Rings, #2)

by J.R.R. Tolkien

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An Introduction to Medieval Theology (Introduction to Religion)

by Rik Van Nieuwenhove

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The Letters of Samuel Rutherford

by 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

“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
― seneca, Peace of Mind: De Tranquillitate Animi

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“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
― Elbert Hubbard

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“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: kingdom

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“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses

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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

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