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When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is…

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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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It must be for truth's sake, and not for the sake of its usefulness to humanity, that the scientific man studies Nature.… — Louis Agassiz
We need to repent of our willing cooperation in our money-centered culture, which is depleting the natural resources that God designed for… — Paul Brand
Careful amidst the careless, amongst the sleeping wide-awake, the intelligent man leaves them all behind, like a race-horse does a mere hack. — Gautama Buddha
You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60. — Linda Evans
He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal,… — Max Stirner
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
No man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure. — James A. Michener
When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place… — Frederick Buechner
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson
POSTNot a head stands out A finger rises Then it is the voice that one knows A signal a brief note A… — Pierre Reverdy
Don't ask me for answers, I've only got one. That a man leaves the darkness, when he follows the Son. — Larry Norman
I will never deny that life isn't fair. It seems as though when a woman leaves a man she is strong and… — Criss Jami

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