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“Then I wondered if that's all God ever is--somebody who loves you enough to come back from the dead to visit every now and again. Or if that's all that other people ever are--different faces of God walking around.”

Book:Rapture of Canaan

Work

Rapture of Canaan

In Rapture of Canaan, readers are transported to the tumultuous period of the Civil War in the American South. The story delves into the lives of a family, intertwining their struggles with the broader historical context. The narrative explores themes of religious faith, family loyalty, and the quest for redemption amidst the chaos of war. more

Author

Sheri Reynolds

Sheri Reynolds is an American author born on August 29, 1967. Her works primarily focus on themes such as women's growth, family relationships, and self-discovery. Known for her delicate writing style and profound insights, Reynolds' works have won the hearts of many readers. more

“The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a whole people, it would always be absurd to say: "I hereby make a covenant with you which is wholly at your expense and wholly to my advantage; I will respect it so long as I please and you shall respect it as long as I wish.”

People Men Long Whole Wish Please Advantage Slavery Absurd Expenses One Man Contradictory Covenant

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“And ask each passenger to tell his story, and if there is one of them all who has not cursed his existence many times, and said to himself over and over again that he was the most miserable of men, I give you permission to throw me head-first into the sea.”

Ifs Men Giving Firsts Said Stories Asks Existence Sea Miserable Permission Cursed Passengers

Author:Voltaire

“The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.”

Men May Social Natural Moral Mankind Equal Contrary Inequality Substitutes Destroying Covenant Pact Social Contract

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“In truth, laws are always useful to those with possessions and harmful to those who have nothing; from which it follows that the social state is advantageous to men only when all possess something and none has too much.”

Men States Law Social Too Much Possession Social Contract

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau