Cuộc Chiến Luân Hồi (Tiểu thuyết) (Tặng Postcard) tải về miễn phí cuốn sách

Sebastian Scherhans scherhanssebasti — Finally we get to the end of this incredible series. It sits beside His Dark Materials, HP, and Bartimaeus as the best children's fantasy series that I've ever read. I need to include the Chronicles of Prydain in there too. So I just finished it and it definitely lived up to my expectations. Maybe a little violent and bloody for the under 12 set, but awesome.

A L andylavendf115 — "As one pastoral minister reminded me, 'Our moral failure is more often in omitting what we should be doing than it is in committing what we ought to avoid.'" (pg. 7) "Contracts work well if the necessary services and fees can be clearly spelled out in advance. But a ministerial relationship is open to services that are not so predictable and so cannot always be spelled out in advance...Covenantal thinking wants to know what is the most we can do in grateful response to what we have received (pg. 15)." "It is awesome to think that, in our freedom, we have the power to keep Absolute Power at bay (pg. 17)." "In ministry, we covenant by entrusting to a pastoral minister our secrets, our sins, our fears, our hopes, our need for salvation (pg. 17)." "Most of the time we reach decisions almost without reflecting (pg. 33)." Consider William May's thought that "one test of our character and virtue is what a person does when no one else is watching (pg. 42)." Compassion "suffers with" the other. It is the capacity to participate in the joys and sorrows of others without becoming overwhelmed by their experience or lost in it (pg. 46)." "We are the ones to whom people turn in order to help them see the sacred dimensions of everyday life (pg. 53)." "It is one thing to have right knowledge about the Christian tradition and its theological concepts, but it is a special skill to use this knowledge to help people find meaning and value in their experiences from the perspective of faith (pg. 54)." "The significance of competence can clearly be seen in the lack of it...People simply give more power to those who are good at what they do (pg. 71)." "Ministers have been given a remarkable amount of latitude for defining what qualifies as confidential. We have mistakenly extended the seal of confession to covr every sort of pastoral activity and communication (pg. 117)." "Sissela Bok maintains that, if we were stripped of our secrets and had no control over what others knew about us, then we could not remain either sane or free (pg. 121)."

Chris Chris chris_lost7 — My all-time favorite young adult chick-lit series. It was already old when I read it as a high student in the 1970s, but it still seemed relevant to me. Dinny had the perfect balance between social grace and brainy nerdiness. I wanted to be her.