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- Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words…
- We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close…
- In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all of us seen…
- Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of…
- Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly…
- In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated.…
- It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty…
- And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left…
- He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and…
- In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will…
- Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.
- Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again rather than once-and-for-all.…
- One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be…
- It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of…
- All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
- Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be…
- Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
- From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay…
- Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is…
- What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
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