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“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.”
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“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
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“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
― Out of Solitude: Three Meditations on the Christian Life
Christine’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Christine’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
30 books
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52 friends
221 books
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43 friends
10 books
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31 friends
0 books
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88 friends
20 books
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4 friends
0 books
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35 friends
1 book
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28 friends
451 books
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83 friends
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Favorite Genres
Biography, Christian, Classics, Cookbooks, Crime, Fantasy, Fiction, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Psychology, Religion, Romance, Science, Self help, Suspense, Spirituality, and Travel
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