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“My mom was there to answer the unanswerable, to make sense of the fault in our life - and we got through that somehow; we came out on the other side. Now I'm 0 for 2 and I don't get any more pitches to swing at.”

Quote by Daisy Whitney

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Daisy Whitney is a reporter, the specific birth and death dates are unknown. more

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Book:The Christian Imagination: The Practice of Faith in Literature and Writing

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“There is a quiet revolution going on in the study of the Bible. At its center is a growing awareness that the Bible is a work of literature and that the methods of literary scholarship are a necessary part of any complete study of the Bible.”

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Book:How to Read the Bible as Literature

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Source: Realms of Gold: The Classics in Christian Perspective