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• Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It]…
• Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what…
• Suffering attracts fixers the way road-kills attract vultures.
• Jesus almost never talked in terms of explaining. He was always using enigmatic stories and difficult metaphors. He was always pulling people…
• It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the…
• I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
• The life of faith is a daily exploration of the constant and countless ways in which Gods grace and love are expereinced
• I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.
• Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.
• The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This…
• Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?
• You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less…

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