Tabitha
@tabithamcduffee
Writer. Learner. Beauty chaser.
Tabitha
@tabithamcduffee
Writer. Learner. Beauty chaser.
“I don’t believe in proofs of God. Proofs are human things based in the logic of materiality. But it seems to me what we know as beauty must be the expression of God’s very nature. Unlike the arts we make, which are always open to interpretation, this sort of loveliness is purified of anything like thought. It is what it is—and isn’t that the name
... See moreKingdom of Cain by Andrew Klavan, page 216
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”
— Anne Lamott, Somehow (133)
“But rationalizing what God does involves the risk of losing its difficulty and otherness to human expectations. His great forgiveness of the first criminal offends people’s sense of justice, unless they can find a way to read vengefulness into the tale. We are instead to learn that mercy is nearer than justice to Godliness, and that mercy can
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How to Submit by Dennis James Sweeney, page 22 about non-commercialized books and publishing.
“This is the epitome of the stories that seem far too ugly to be in the Bible. This is not trickery of treachery at its most abysmal. It should be said, first of all, that the Hebrew Bible does not romanticize the history of the people of create it, to whom it is addressed, and who have preserved it faithfully over millennia. It is as if America
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