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East of Eden

by John Steinbeck

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April Thrush said: " This book has solidified my love for Steinbeck. Brilliantly written, and with such memorable characters. His writing is absolutely beautiful, and is so human. Readers of Steinbeck use that word a lot to describe his writing, "human." You have to read ...more "

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Minds Over Meetings: A Personal Perspective on Wellness in the Workplace

by Kody Green (Goodreads Author)

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Life Together by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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The believer feels no shame, as though he were still living too much in the flesh, when he yearns for the physical presence of other Christians. Man was created a body, the Son of God appeared on earth in the body, he was raised in the ...more

So many people in our western culture do not understand this principle well enough… they know there is Something important to being in person, but can’t quite seem to figure out why that is the case. We need the physical presence of one another to feel the presence of God with us.

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“Vices have to masquerade as virtues — lust as love, thinly veiled sadism as military discipline, envy as righteous indignation, domestic tyranny as parental concern.”
― Cornelius Plantinga Jr., Not the Way It's Supposed to Be: A Breviary of Sin

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“I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed— because ‘Thou mayest.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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