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Beautiful fall morning to sit on the screen porch & listen to this. Part of me wishes more of this chapter would've been ft in the movie while the other part of me doesn't want to see Greyback in his utterly detestable way. But then again, you need to come to terms w/ the ugly before you can appreciate the beauty.

"Voldemort’s mistake, Harry…Voldemort’s mistake. Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth."

"Shortly before his death, Billy wrote, 'I care not what is said about me. . . . I am and always have been plain Billy Sunday, trying to do God's will in preaching Jesus and Him crucified and arisen from the dead for our sins.'"

"When you put together two determined people like William and Catherine...you wouldn't expect to find the love and commitment that was evidenced by the Booths...At times, they admonished one another; at other times, they propped each other up. The fact of the matter is, they loved each other. It's an unusual army that is founded in love, but, of course, The Salvation Army has always been an unusual army."

"It is a mercy that our loves are not left for us to plan, but that our Father chooses for us, else might we sometimes turn away from our best blessings, and put from us the choicest and loveliest gifts of His providence."

"He wrote Polly: 'Perhaps we may not be rich—no matter. We are rich in love. We are rich indeed, if the promises and providence of God are our inheritance.'"

"For the first time, Voldemort smiled. It was taut leer - an evil thing, more threatening than a look of rage. 'The old argument,' he said softly. 'But nothing I have seen in the world has supported your famous pronouncments that love is more powerful than my kind of magic, Dumbledore.'

'Perhaps you have been looking in the wrong places,' suggested Dumbledore."

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"The vast riches of children's stories aren't for kids alone. Great children's literature offers glimpses of redemption that may stir our hearts as kids, but that silence us with awe when we're adults well-versed in Scripture, with the lifelong burden of sin weighing down our backs."

Audiobooks make a great travel companion. 💫

"And now, Harry, let us step out into the night and pursue that flighty temptress: adventure."

"No fiction can replace God's inspired word, but the right stories—those that applaud valor in the face of terror, hope against all hope, and celebrate the just, true, and lovely (PHIL. 4:8)—can help point our kids to the one, true story of Christ crucified and risen for us."