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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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Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

Above Alone Between Consciousness
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The Mexican succumbs very easily to sentimental effusions, and therefore he shuns them.

Easily He Mexican Sentimental
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

Affects Also Aspects Because
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One of the most notable traits of the Mexican's character is his willingness to contemplate horror: he is even familiar and complacent in his dealings with it.

Character Complacent Contemplate Even
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.

He History Man Me
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.

Abstract Attempts Escape Essential
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
Breathing Involuntary Mortals Natural
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In antiquity, a woman might be an object of worship or desire, but never of love.

Antiquity Desire Love Might
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.

Against Characteristic Constant Continuity
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.

Accepted Attitude Because Beginning
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.

Analysis Delay Dynamic Means
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Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

Accomplice Am Aware Call
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?

Also Attribute Feelings Guide
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No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

About Alone Another Brings
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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

Between Change Coming Constant
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
Always How Momentary Were
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.

Metaphors Other Perhaps Things
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.

Also Different Human Metaphor
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Different Each Others Part
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.

More Poets Sound Than
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Alert Awaits Choose Close
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Poetry is the experience of liberty. The poet risks himself, chances all on the poem's all with each verse he writes.

Chances Each Experience He
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Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Chorus Discord Does Even
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.

America Continent Created Does
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It has always surprised me that in a world of relations as hard as that of the United States, cordiality constantly springs out like water from an unstanchable fountain.

Always Constantly Fountain Hard
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