A Few Kind Words about Hate: The Dark Side of Family Life and the Bible

Forsideomslag
GermainBooks, 2007 - 321 sider
Smythe sewn cloth binding.Describes the difficulties faced by children in families. Eight chapters discuss Sigmund Freud's abusive childhood and its consequences in his work.
 

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Side 70 - The rich man in his castle, The poor man at his gate, God made them, high or lowly, And ordered their estate.
Side 186 - ALMIGHTY God, Father of all mercies, we, thine unworthy servants, do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us, and to all men. We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life ; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory...
Side 138 - Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for tonight! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart, as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair: Over my slumbers your loving watch keep, Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.
Side 276 - I believe in the flesh and the appetites, Seeing, hearing, feeling, are miracles, and each part and tag of me is a miracle.
Side 144 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die, Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Side 96 - Lizzie Borden took an axe And gave her Mother forty whacks ; When she saw what she had done, She gave her Father forty-one ! The admirable brevity of the bard is beyond praise ; volumes might have contained less matter.
Side 10 - Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry...
Side 188 - A death unto sin, and a new birth unto righteousness : For being by nature born in sin, and the children of wrath, we are hereby made the children of grace.
Side 249 - It seems that I was always destined to be so deeply concerned with vultures; for I recall as one of my very earliest memories that while I was in my cradle a vulture came down to me, and opened my mouth with its tail, and struck me many times with its tail against my lips
Side 186 - O GoD, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Our shelter from the stormy blast, And our eternal home.

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