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“It seems that we, like Jesus before us, will know trouble and displacement. We will be called away from so many great loves: love of family, love of our familiar fields. But we will also be tasked with the work of cultivating new homes and new fields and new relationships. We will wander. We will come home. But always we will follow.”
― Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons
― Roots and Sky: A Journey Home in Four Seasons
“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
“How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone, and narrow to be everything to someone?”
― What's Wrong with the World
― What's Wrong with the World
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