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To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to…

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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 is in vain that we get upon stilts, for once on them, it is still with our legs that we must… — Michel de Montaigne
The victims of injustice in our world do not need our spasms of passion; they need our long obedience in the same… — Gary Haugen
If we get chased out of Iraq with our tail between our legs, that will be the fifth consecutive Third-world country with… — Hunter S. Thompson
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is… — Abraham Joshua Heschel
It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the… — Jan Struther
As powerful as our legs are, as magnificent as our lungs and arms and muscles are, nothing matters more than the mind. — Scott Jurek
Victims of oppression & injustice don't need our spasm of passion....they need our legs & lungs of endurance. — Gary Haugen
From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly, tearful; set… — John Galsworthy
Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking… — P.J. O'Rourke
We found that just by the way we stood, affected women dramatically, and if you look at our show, you'll see that… — Burt Ward
Winning the Championship is like taking a 26-year ball and chain from around our legs. Now we can go forward, and hopefully… — Bryan Robson
Most of sex is psychological - most of it is between our ears and not between our legs. — Joy Browne

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