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title: "8 Crooked lines Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [“Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-h-green/fortunately-the-lord-is-patient-and-understanding-and-does-write/)

[Thomas H. Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-h-green/)

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> [“I was so done with looking at life through the eyes of beer-drinking cheese-heads. I wanted to go on that mission trip…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/holly-michael/i-was-so-done-with-looking-at-life-through-the-eyes-of-beer-drinking/)

[Holly Michael](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/holly-michael/)

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> [My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/my-argument-against-god-was-that-the-universe-seemed-so-cruel-and/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f17/c-s-lewis-2-132_agnostic_my-argument-against-god-was-that-the-uni_542710.png)

> [Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/arthur-miller/whether-for-good-or-evil-it-is-sadly-inevitable-that-all-political/)

[Arthur Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/arthur-miller/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6f4/arthur-miller-947_artifice_whether-for-good-or-evil-it-is-sadly-ine_790746.png)

> [These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maureen-johnson/these-houses-had-been-plunked-down-with-an-alarming-randomness/)

[Maureen Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maureen-johnson/)

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> [A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-s-lewis/a-man-does-not-call-a-line-crooked-unless-he-has-some-idea-of-a/)

[C. S. Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-s-lewis/)

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> [God draws straight with crooked lines.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andrew-greeley/god-draws-straight-with-crooked-lines/)

[Andrew Greeley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andrew-greeley/)

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> [God does not have a fixed plan that he must carry out; on the contrary, he has many different ways of finding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-benedict-xvi/god-does-not-have-a-fixed-plan-that-he-must-carry-out-on-the-contrary/)

[Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-benedict-xvi/)

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