“Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.”
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“Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.”
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
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“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden...”
“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.”
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“To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are br...”
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“God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.”
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“The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the flame. When Sarah was about to die childl...”
“Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.”
“If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could be. If it could be somehow proved, then...”
“Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessed...”
“It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.”
“Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with tha...”
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“Go where your best prayers take you.”
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“Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”
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“Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.”
“One day I was having lunch with two students who were talking about whatever they were talking about - the weather, the movies - when without warning one of them asked the other as naturally...”
“And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real...”
“Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who i...”
“There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.”
“Somos todos mais místicos do que acreditamos ou queremos crer (...). Temos visto mais do que deixamos transparecer, até para nós mesmos. Seja em momentos de beleza ou dor, seja por meio de a...”
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