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1625 Essayist Quotes

The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

God Place Deep Gladness
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Lust Craving Salt Dying
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Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are
Wake Morning God Feet
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

Remember Ill Good Dream
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If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

Power God Love Answer
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
God Himself Answer
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Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

Process Reveal God Room
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You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

Survive Grow Strong Own
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Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
Listen Life Moments
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Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

Whether God Preserve
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Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

Faith Nothing Guide Grasps
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... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
Long run Joy Finally
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Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough

Lord Believe Unbelief God
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The story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

Story Measure Us all
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Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life...

Listen Life Happening Journey
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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Extraordinary Way Ordinary
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The life that touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

Life Touch Good Life
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Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
Sin Grace Tragedy Comedy.
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

Carve Place Grace Born
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It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself that I can imagine ever having found in any other kind of relationship.

Marriage Bond Greater Found
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Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed

Words Deep Hate
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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around
Past Place Present Around
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There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth.

Deserve Taste Raspberries Cream
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The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment

Extraordinary Happen Match Moment
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

Found Death Life Scarcely
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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom,' the good thief said from his cross. (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well

Jesus Remember Kingdom Cross
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Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
Jesus Speak True
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God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

God Unending greatness Possible
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There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.

Poet Lunatic Lover Religious
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It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.

Objective Proof God Existence
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What keeps the wild hope of Christmas alive year after year in a world notorious for dashing all hopes is the haunting dream that the child who was born that day may yet be born again even in us.

Wild Hope Christmas World
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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
Theology Fiction Autobiographical
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To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

Remember Past Today Grace
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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us

Word Eternal Final sense Life
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If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.
People Pray Darkness Lot
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Poetry is above all a concentration of the power of language, which is the power of our ultimate relationship to everything in the universe.

Power Above Universe Relationship
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I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.

Back Coming Head Keep
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Art, whose honesty must work through artifice, cannot avoid cheating truth.
Truth Avoid Honesty Art
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Lying is done with words and also with silence.

Silence Also Done Lying
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The moment of change is the only poem.

Change Moment Only Poem
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The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Planet Force Among Feared
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They can rule the world while they can persuade us our pain belongs in some order is death by famine worse than death by suicide, than a life of famine and suicide?

Belongs Death Famine Life
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The worker can unionize, go out on strike; mothers are divided from each other in homes, tied to their children by compassionate bonds; our wildcat strikes have most often taken the form of physical or mental breakdown.

Mental Bonds Homes Strike
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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

False Past Real Events
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It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

Alive Time Painful Also
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The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

Tale Passion Tell Mind
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Life on the planet is born of woman.

Born Life Planet Woman
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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

News Truth False New
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When a woman tells the truth she is creating the possibility for more truth around her.

Truth Creating More Around
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The repossession by women of our bodies will bring far more essential change to human society than the seizing of the means of production by workers.

Society Human Change Bring
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