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Shōgun: Part Two
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A Circle of Quiet
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Book cover for The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
Is it possible that the relationship between humanity and evil is similar to the relationship between the ocean and an iceberg floating on its surface? Both the ocean and the iceberg are made of the same material. That the iceberg seems ...more
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Mary Doria Russell
“So much of what he knew about religion struck him as total bullshit; he was disarmed when the fathers freely admitted that some stories were in fact pious fictions. But, judging his character, they dared him to cut through what he called the crap: to find the core of truth, carefully preserved and offered”
Mary Doria Russell, The Sparrow

Thomas Merton
“The greatest politeness Is free of all formality. Perfect conduct Is free of concern. Perfect wisdom Is unplanned. Perfect love Is without demonstrations. Perfect sincerity offers No guarantee.”
Thomas Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu

Gregory Boyle
“I believe that God protects me from nothing but sustains me in everything.”
Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

Martin Laird
“Symptoms of growth may look like breakdown or derangement; the more we are allowed by the love of others and by self-understanding to live through our derangement into the new arrangement, the luckier we are. It is unfortunate when our anxiety over what looks like personal confusion or dereliction blinds us to the forces of liberation at work.”
Martin Laird, Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation

Henri J.M. Nouwen
“Without reading the word, silence becomes stale, and without silence, the word loses its re-creative power. The word leads to silence and silence to the word. The word is born in silence, and silence is the deepest response to the word.”
Henri J.M. Nouwen, Reaching Out

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