There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
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There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.
“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
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“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
“My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in the manner of the other creatures, but are instead participants in a reality that utterly exceeds our powers of description.”
“I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.”
“I doubt that I could create a character I loathed simply because when a character takes life, it is impossible not to be a little amazed by the phenomenon, and to find that the amazement has something of the quality of delight.”
“Existence is the essential thing and the holy thing.”
“A lot of Christian extremism has done a great deal to discredit religion; the main religious traditions have abandoned their own intellectual cultures so drastically that no one has any sense of it other than the fringe.”
“Everyone is ready for the end of the day, ten-minute group meditation. The meditation is like the iciest beer you have ever had after a hard day’s work.”
“Don't fear your destiny, for it is the sum of your past and present combined with your level of confidence and faith.”
“Yo no hablo la verdad de Dios para que me aceptes a mí; la hablo porque Él me envió. Queda en ti si quieres pudrirte en las pailas del infierno o estar delante del trono del Padre.”
“I see now that my faith was becoming an ally rather than an enemy because I could vent anger freely, even toward God, without fearing retribution.”
“God has prepared for Himself one great song of praise throughout eternity, and those who enter the community of God join in this song. It is the song that the “morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy” at the creation of the world. (Job 38:7). It is the victory song of the children of Israel after passing through the Red Sea, the Magnificat of Mary after the annunciation, the song of Paul and Silas in the night of prison, the song of the singers on the sea of glass after their rescue, the “song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb” (Rev. 15:3) It is the song of the heavenly fellowship.”