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“When we begin from a place of belief, no matter how small or insubstantial, we can see what was always there, hidden in plain sight.”
― Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons
― Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons
“a surprise or two hiding in everyone, and if you put them in a box, you’ll never get to see it.”
― Begin
― Begin
“To suffer and to be happy although suffering, to have one’s feet on the earth, to walk on the dirty and rough paths of this earth and yet to be enthroned with Christ at the Father’s right hand, to laugh and cry with the children of this world and ceaselessly sing the praises of God with the choirs of angels—this is the life of the Christian until the morning of eternity breaks forth.”
― The Hidden Life: Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Text
― The Hidden Life: Essays, Meditations, Spiritual Text
“I will be the stronger of the knowledge. In warning there is strength.”
― Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
― Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
“what is the good of a man being honest in his worship of dishonesty?”
― The Innocence of Father Brown
― The Innocence of Father Brown
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