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“We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.”

Quote by A.L. Kennedy

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A.L. Kennedy, born on October 22, 1965, is a renowned writer whose works span a variety of literary forms including novels, short stories, and essays. Known for her profound emotions and unique narrative style, her writing delves into the complexities of human nature and societal injustices. more

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“Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go.”

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“Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.”

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“Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and get it back.”

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“God is a novelist. He uses all sorts of literary devices: alliteration, assonance, rhyme, synecdoche, onomatopoeia. But of all of these, His favorite is foreshadowing.And that is what God was doing at the Cloisters and with Eudora Welty. He was foreshadowing. He was laying traps, leaving clues, clues I could have seen had I been perceptive enough.”

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Book:Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life

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“The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.”

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“In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.”

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Book:Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline

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“My job [as a teacher] is to love the Scriptures in public. And then sit down.”

Jobs Teacher Scripture

Author:Lauren F. Winner

“Scholars have endlessly written about antebellum Protestant thinking about slavery. Now, finally, Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon turns a spotlight on a new, crucial question: how did antebellum Protestants parse capitalism? For anyone who seeks to understand the political economy of the antebellum era-or, indeed, the complex entanglement of Christianity and capitalism today-this book is critical. I, for one, am very grateful to Stewart Davenport for having written it.”

“Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith.”

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Book:Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis

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“The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.”