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God Is Love: A 10-Week Lectio Divina Study Through the Gospels

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Twist

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The Presence of Absence: Meditations on the Unsayable in Writing

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Making It So: A Memoir

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

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