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How C.S. Lewis Helped Encourage Tolkien’s ‘LORD OF THE RINGS’
By Alicia Kort, Newsweek | Repost In the 20th century, two British authors, J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, dominated the world’s imagination with their original works, which have been translated into more than 39 languages, printed in more than 300 million copies and were optioned into films earning more than $6.4 billion combined Continue reading
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Quote to Ponder ~George Buttrick
“If we walk by faith, every victory invests us with higher courage, and every failure flings us back to God.“~George Buttrick Continue reading
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Quote to Ponder ~John Donne
“He that fears God fears nothing else.” ~John Donne Continue reading
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Quote to Ponder ~C.S. Lewis
“Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.” ~C.S. Lewis Continue reading
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Quote to Ponder ~C.S. Lewis
“Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man…It is the comparison that makes you proud; the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition has gone, pride has gone.” ~C.S. Lewis Continue reading
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Twain Publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Twain publishes The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn On this day in 1885, Mark Twain publishes his famous–and famously controversial–novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Twain (the pen name of Samuel Clemens) first introduced Huck Finn as the best friend of Tom Sawyer, hero of his tremendously successful novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). Though Continue reading
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Quote to Ponder ~Lawrence O. Richards
“God not only gives life, but also enriches life.” ~Lawrence O. Richards Continue reading
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Quote to Ponder ~Os Guinness
“Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his summons and service.” ~Os Guinness Continue reading
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