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Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.
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In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
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If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle…
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Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily…
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The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who…
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Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.
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This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship.
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I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
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When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one…
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Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.
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I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes…
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Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
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The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.
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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love…
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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted…
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I really need a gin and tonic.
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The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me
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