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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

by Susan Cain (Goodreads Author)

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The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About

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The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking

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“If you have not grasped the gospel fully and deeply, you will return to being condescending, condemning, anxious, insecure, joyless, and angry all the time.”
― Timothy Keller, The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith

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“IT is only when we are no longer in control--because of sickness, death, or our own bad choices--that we no longer cling. The path to salvation is the path of humiliation.”
― Jonathan Martin

tags: christianity, grace, humiliation, salvation

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“We don’t think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to our imperfections. Those who can’t accept their imperfections can’t accept grace either.”
― Donald Miller, Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Acquiring a Taste for True Intimacy

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“The cross of Jesus says to us there is nothing God won't do to bring us home--except force us to choose him. The cross is God laying down his great power so we might be compelled by the beauty of his heart. He will not coerce us, but only woo us.”
― Jonathan Martin, How to Survive a Shipwreck: Help Is on the Way and Love Is Already Here

tags: beauty, christianity, faith, love

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“This fits the pattern of how God responds to human suffering: We come looking for answers; God sends a hot meal through a warm body. WE come looking for reasons for our hunger; God sends provision to feed us. We come looking for a sermon that will explain the complexity of the cosmos to us and satiate our desire for understanding; Christ responds with, "This is my body, given for you; this is my blood, shed for you."

People try to offer us an explanation; God offers us a Eucharist.”
― Jonathan Martin

tags: christianity, eucharist, faith, grace, suffering

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