“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
― Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
― Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works
“some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.”
― Deliver Us from Normal
― Deliver Us from Normal
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.”
― The Collected Works of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God in the Dock
― The Collected Works of C.S. Lewis: The Pilgrim's Regress, Christian Reflections, God in the Dock
“I like the scientific spirit—the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine—it always keeps the way beyond open—always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to try over again after a mistake—after a wrong guess.”
― Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations
― Walt Whitman's Camden Conversations
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A book group for friends of Lisa Qualls, writer of One Thankful Mom. We read and discuss books relevant to parenting children from hard places.
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