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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.

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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge…
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party…
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate…
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to…
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no…
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of…
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems…

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I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with… — Tom Baker
"Dreamers and dreaming dead, lots of them from neither here nor there with no chance of getting home again, lost in place… — Janet Morris
It was at the beginning of all this tabloid frenzy. Our garbage was being gone through, and we were involved in all… — Lauren Holly
Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton,… — Paul McCartney
Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home. — Frederick Buechner
Running around when I was a kid was a really happy time; a time when getting home for dinner or for sleep… — Josh Hartnett
E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love. — Dee Wallace
There are two ways of getting home; and one of them is to stay there. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Properly speaking, of course, there is no such thing as a return to nature, because there is no such thing as a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I thought you were a drunk." "A drunk?" "Bloodshot eyes, dirty clothes, getting home in the wee hours of the morning, making… — Linda Howard
...arranging the journey was so difficult. Getting home again was much easier. — Thor Heyerdahl
PS 111 had free lunch. Embarrassed but managed to get a plate. We was kids hungry. Mom's working, I was famished. She… — Nas

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