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“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by…

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For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

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“I think sometimes there might be an advantage in making people aware how worn and stale these old transgressions are. It might take some…

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There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal…

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My Calvinism persuades me that we are open to God, in the sense that we are not delimited, not organisms with fixed attributes in…

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“You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it. A man can know his father, or his…

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I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

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“Every writer I know, when asked how to become a writer, responds with one word:Read.”

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“Faith for her was habit and family loyalty, a reverence for the Bible which was also literary, admiration for her mother and father. And…

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“Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.”

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“The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.’ There are pleasures to be found where you…

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I sometimes am discouraged by what seems to be a sort of conventional disparagement of humankind. I think often people feel that they are…

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