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The Discipline of Grace Study Guide: God’s Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness

by Jerry Bridges

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Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1)

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Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)

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“Our mission as thinking Christians who seek to love God with our minds should find expression in the way that we read.”
― Gene C. Fant Jr., God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative

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“Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.”
― William Wordsworth

tags: on-writing, writing, writing-from-the-heart

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“Teaching remains a heroic act to me, and teachers live a necessary and all-important life. We are killing their spirit with unnecessary pressure and expectation that seem forced and destructive to me. Long ago I was one of them. I still regret I was forced to leave them. My entire body of work is because of men and women like them.”
― Pat Conroy, A Lowcountry Heart: Reflections on a Writing Life

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“In short, I had always believed that the world involved magic: now I thought that perhaps it involved a magician. And this pointed a profound emotion always present and sub-conscious; that this world of ours has some purpose; and if there is a purpose, there is a person. I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller.”
― Kevin Belmonte, A Year with G. K. Chesterton: 365 Days of Wisdom, Wit, and Wonder

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“Each theme employs elements of the Restoration Narrative, opening up each work for serious theological consideration. T. S. Eliot once observed that “mediocre writers borrow; great writers steal.”17 The greatest writers in the world have stolen the greatest Story ever told, time and time again. Christians should recognize this Story and seize the opportunity presented by this towering influence.”
― Gene C. Fant Jr., God as Author: A Biblical Approach to Narrative

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