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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

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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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Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's… — Malcolm X
A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to. — Louis J. Camuti
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. — Frederick Buechner
I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I think, 'You have a… — Jude Law
You have a handkerchief, put it in your pocket. — Jude Law
The angels in heaven covered their eyes with their hands and sobbed loudly, because that is what they always do when a… — Guus Kuijer
One judge is coughing his life out into bloody handkerchiefs and the other is burying his wife, and you think this is… — Orson Scott Card
Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one… — Elwyn Brooks White
A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk under ladders. I… — Rachel Maddow
All the blood shed as a result of secession could be wiped up with a handkerchief. — Unknown Author
You thought I was that type: that you could forget me, and that I'd plead and weep and throw myself under the… — Anna Akhmatova
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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