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What to Read or Not to Read? That is the Question for Discerning Christians
"Post #5 in the series Reading Faith and Culture “More than half of modern culture depends on what we shouldn’t read.” – Oscar Wilde. I know that when I sit down to read, I want to read something ..."
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"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope." — Alexandre Dumas |
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“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton
― G.K. Chesterton
“There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison”
― Jane Austen, Persuasion
― Jane Austen, Persuasion
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated. ”
― Edith Hamilton
― Edith Hamilton
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton
― G.K. Chesterton
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