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First edition, it appears, came out in the fifties. Today I got my own copy in Arabic from the Carmelites of Lebanon. It is a sheer delight to read. In the first chapter he draws a beautiful image of the loving mother who is God likened to. She ha...
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Sojourns of the Soul: One Woman's Journey Around the World and into Her Truth
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The Valley of Heaven and Hell - Cycling in the Shadow of Marie-Antoinette
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Group Read, Pre-1962, July, 2012
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“Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing. Those who belong to communities of faith have acquired a certain patience with what is sometimes called organized religion. They have learned to forgive themselves. They do not expect their institutions to stand in for God, and they are happy to use inherited maps for some of life's journeys. They do not need to walk off every cliff all by themselves. Yet they too can harbor the sense that there is more to life that they are being shown. Where is the secret hidden? Who has the key to the treasure box of More?”
― Barbara Brown Taylor
― Barbara Brown Taylor
“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
“what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
― George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life
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