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“The loud, boisterous noises of the world, make us deaf to the soft, gentle, and loving voice of God. A Christian leader is called to help people to hear that voice and be so comforted and consoled.”

“It seems easier to be God than to love God, easier to control people than to love people, easier to own life than to love life.”

“Laying down your life means making your own faith and doubt, hope and despair, joy and sadness, courage and fear available to others as ways of getting in touch with the Lord of life. We are not healers. We are not reconcilers. We are not givers of life. We are sinful, broken, vulnerable people who need as much care as anyone we care for.

“Christian leaders cannot simply be persons who have well-informed opinions about the burning issues of our time. Their leadership must be rooted in the permanent intimate relationship with the incarnate Word, Jesus, and they need to find there the source for their words, advice and guidance.”

“The radical good news is that the second love is only a broken reflection of the first love, and that the first love is offered to us by a God in whom there are no shadows. Jesus‘s heart is the incarnation of the shadow-free first love of God”

“The Christian leader of the future is the one who truly knows the heart of God, as it has become flesh, ‘a heart of flesh,’ in Jesus.”

It’s like playing a video game but it’s a book

“Smoke spirals up from the cigar in his hand, which smells like rain falling on a desert.”

Very gloomy and eerie so far?

I’ve never been icked out harder by a first page… this is not a good sign. I’m seeing a DNF in my future, but I’ll give it a shot

Slapped my book reading this line (SPOILER)

“I love you, Violet Thistlewaite. For all that you are, I love you. For all that you are working so hard to become, I love you. I see you, thorns and all—and I love you.”

RAHHH

“It was time to stop thinking so much.” My thoughts exactly bruh

“He didn’t feel like he’d failed her or Pru or anyone else. In fact, he felt his burden lessened somehow, he’d taken some of it off his shoulders and laid it on the ground. The knowledge of what he’d done didn’t magically disappear—it just sort of sat there at his feet—but at least he wasn’t holding it anymore.”

“… I know the logic is seldom welcome at the table of our emotions, particularly when they disagree.”

“If he could have dived into the pleasure that filled him then and swum in it like a swimming pool, he might never have stepped foot on dry land again.”

“This—this infatuation of his was becoming inconvenient.”

“Eyes like sunshine through a cup of tea”

I complain that I don’t get enough books from a man’s perspective and now that I have a man’s perspective I take it back

“You are from the east, and the west. You are mine, as I am yours.” WAHHHH

“Did you know that humans are the only animals who cry?”
She smiles from ear to ear.
“No, I didn’t know that. I thought we were the only animals who laugh.”

As someone who loves chemistry, women’s rights, and God, this book angers me deeply.

“Men and women are both human beings. And as humans, we’re byproducts of our upbringings, victims of our lackluster education systems, and choosers of our behaviors.”

I love this book

So far this is what I was expecting Alchemy of Secrets to be