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Whole Quotes by Wendell Berry
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true. And if…
- O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken,…
- We can make ourselves whole only by accepting our partiality, by living within our limits, by being humans not by trying to be gods.
- We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
- To accept that there is nothing to do is to despair. It is to become in some fundamental way less than human. Those of us…
- Reverence makes it possible to be whole, though ignorant. It is the wholeness of understanding.
- The world is whole beyond human knowing.
- There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary…
- It is to be broken. It is to be torn open. It is not to be reached and come to rest in ever. I turn…
- No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small…
- New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place,…
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