"Out of a human population on earth of……" — Annie Dillard

"Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms."

— Annie Dillard

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The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it. — Rob Bell
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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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