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Commonplace Book:

Leif Enger

Brief Bio: American author

Lived: 1961-

For further info: en.wikipedia.org

Quotes:

“A church you could bear”

We stayed with the blues and Francie sensing a vein of covenant sang in her scratchiest aching voice, the reason we cajoled her into the band to start with, and it began to resemble what I once imagined church might be like, a church you could bear, where people laughed and enjoyed each other and did not care if they were right all the time or if other people were wrong.

2024 from the book I Cheerfully Refuse

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“To refuse Apocalypse in all its forms”

She said the church was a broken compass. That our job always and forever was to refuse Apocalypse in all its forms and work cheerfully against it.

2024 from the book I Cheerfully Refuse

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