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‘Things will happen in life that we could never anticipate. God likes to keep us on our toes. He has blessed me with an amazing life full of love and purpose. I can’t wait to see what He has in store for me next.’

‘I’m also a big Chicago Bears fan. I’ve rooted for them especially hard these last few years. I feel like they need my sympathy now more than ever.’

‘They put up fake tweets that had me saying things like, “I’m #turnt to watch my Gucci fam pound these dank opps in the paint, and simp bougie teams like Yale get smoked, no cap.”

‘Loosely translated, I believe that means, “Go Ramblers!”’

‘She moved the cursor to the URL box, started typing, one finger to one key at a time. F a c

‘“You’re typing like someone called Margaret,” Billy smirked.’

“PB and J, dude? You twelve?”

“It’s my dessert sandwich,” he said, recoiling back.

‘This was a different room, no longer living.’

‘Sigmund Freud, whose books were also burned that night, made a similar remark: “Only our books? In earlier times they would have burned us with them.”’

‘…as angry as a wild boar that’s been given a habanero suppository…’ is my new favourite descriptor…

New life goal: to be more like Charlie Green

‘He wrote of the “forty young girls who wanted to become nuns entered in a solemn procession wearing nun’s habits with blue or green sashes…. With unbelievable simplicity, grace, and great seriousness they sang Evensong while a priest officiated at the altar…. The ritual was truly no longer merely ritual. Instead, it was worship in the true sense.”’

One of those books where it’s horrible, but also a story so fascinating that I think I could read an even longer book about it.

I started this book years ago, but was intimidated by the length, and struggled to keep up with it. Now I do a chapter a day during my focused reading time, and I’m enjoying it! Especially the part that takes place in the Eolian. 😊

So far, lots of valuable insight. Definitely written like a book that is based off of research, but some valuable lessons too.

‘Historian Philip Schaff says that [John] Chrysostom “urged that every house should be a church….”’

More and more, the work I was doing in the corporate world seemed to lack meaning. What was the point if it had no positive impact on anyone?

I really am having trouble putting this one down. First time I have had that problem with a book in quite a while.

Just had a good laugh.

'Do you have cornflakes in America?'

'Well, actually, they're American too.'

....'Fancy! So what brings you to Britain then if you have cornflakes already?'

"I have heard many students of history wonder out loud how it was that good people in America turned a blind eye to slavery for so long....The problem with this line of thinking, though sincere, is that it is generally incorrect. Why? Because, for the most part, if somebody was willing to be an abolitionist in Lincoln's day, they most likely would already be one now."

“And what will the boy’s name be?” asks the vicar, who’s also an accountant, and a doctor and, it’s emerged, works a bit on the side as a librarian.

‘We don’t beat people to death in this leaseholders’ association.’ - This gave me the chuckle I needed this morning.

“People have to tell their stories, Elsa. Or the suffocate.”

‘And then Elsa did a bit of Googling and then she pointed out to Granny that it wasn’t a very responsible analogy to divulge to a child.’ - This cracked me up!