The East is unfamiliar with those confessions, memoirs, and autobiographies so beloved in the West. There is a clear difference in tonality.… — Paul Evdokimov Copy Share Image
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The gift list is thinking upon His goodness – and this, this pleases Him most! And most profits my own soul and… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
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The hunting season is sacred. It's been sacred in my life since birth. I've never missed a hunting season in 64 years.… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
The Code of the Vampires decreed that anyone who violated the Sacred Law was condemned to death, the blood burning. Charles had… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
So we see, brethren and sisters that the words of Christ can be a personal Liahona for each of us, showing us… — W. Rolfe Kerr Copy Share Image
The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
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What I remember most from reporting both the stories are the women. Going into the first piece, I didn't have a super… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
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[He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This… — Jeffrey Shallit Copy Share Image
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There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
When tradition is thought to state the way things really are, it becomes the director and judge of our lives; we are,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Many of the rites of passage, those rituals of growing up found in our society, are in the form of such comic,… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
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