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Prairiehiker -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (11/8/2008 5:21:04 PM)
Chapter 1 - Our Deepest Longing When a doctoral student as Princeton asked, "what is there left in the world for original dissertation research?" Albert Einstein replied, "Find out about prayer. Somebody must find out about prayer." The book is called Prayer (does it make a difference) by Phillip Yancey.

endless_night -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (11/18/2008 3:26:07 PM)
"Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. How shall I say" The Divine Comedy by Dante the Inferno

jbow -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (11/19/2008 10:29:28 AM)
Cool question... My goal is to tell you why God saved you. "The Gospel Mystery of Sanctification" by Walter Marshall Julien

wshepherd -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (11/19/2008 11:06:44 AM)
"The morning sun felt warm on my back as I crouched behind a large pile of shrubbery I had scraped together, overlooking the Jordan River valley." --Once An Arafat Man: The True Story of How A PLO Sniper Found A New Life, by Tass Saada, with Dean Merrill.

9drtr -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (11/19/2008 6:04:47 PM)
She came out of the store just in time to see her young son playing on the sidewalk directly in the path of a grey, gaunt man who strode down the centre of the walk like a mechanical derelict. Lord Foul's Bane Stephen R. Donaldson

JP67 -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (12/2/2008 8:08:45 PM)
I'd had more than my fair share of near-death experiences, it wasn't something you ever really got use to. from Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyers (so far my 2nd time through the book)

ot4christ -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (12/6/2008 8:17:35 PM)
Human cloning. <===seriously and "He who follows Me, walks not in darkness,” says the Lord (John 8:12).

wshepherd -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (12/6/2008 9:15:40 PM)
"Each winter has a personality of its own; this one had been gentle in terms of snowfall yet relentlessly cold, with few storms but lots of nasty ice and miserable temperatures." From Dog Days: Dispatches from Bedlam Farm, by Jon Katz.

ebony101 -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (1/2/2009 3:49:35 AM)
I like: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." But I haven't read that book yet A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. However, I think it's the most known and adapted line of a book ever.

Lloyd-and-Me -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (1/3/2009 4:35:57 PM)
"Down to the last day, even the last hour now, I'm an old man, lonely and unloved, sick and hurting and tired of living. I am ready for the hereafter; it has to be better than this." First two sentences of "The Testament" by John Grisham.

ofa23 -> RE: The first sentence in the book you're reading (1/6/2009 1:15:35 AM)
I was ninety nine point nine percent sure I was dreaming. New Moon by Stephenie Meyer

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