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An Altar in the World: A Geography of Faith by Barbara Brown Taylor

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“Do this,” he said—not believe this but do this—“in remembrance of me.”

“Do people age into acceptance? Is this personality or maturity or a natural realism? Had he already accomplished what he wanted to do? Did he see his kids get married, reach an anniversary, or hit a milestone? What amounted to enough?”
― Kate Bowler, No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear

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“For what is kindness but the performance of an act that is both beneficial to another and unrequired?”
― Amor Towles, The Lincoln Highway

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“Mary is the archtype of the gushing spring, the rushing fountain, the source of inexhaustible life and fecundity. She is, of course, the primordial womb in which all of creation is being fashioned and knit together, the Mother of God, the one whose yes allowed the divine and human to be woven together in a new way.”
― Christine Valters Paintner, Birthing the Holy: Wisdom from Mary to Nurture Creativity and Renewal

tags: archetypes, incarnation, mary

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“This was not a revival of religion in the conventional sense...but rather the discovery that faith was not what you believed but what you did for others when it seemed you could do nothing at all.' Faith returned to them as the result of their compassion and, as they leaned into faith that God was with them in suffering, their capacity for compassion grew.”
― Mariann Edgar Budde, How We Learn to Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith

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“What made life truly precious could not be measured by achievement, or even service. To live fully was not an obligation or an act of faith, it wasn’t a state of being at all, but a capacity, a willingness to engage the smallest and most unexpected aspects of being alive, to remain curious and open to the unforeseen and hitherto unrecognizable. …To live fully was to recognize and acknowledge the tiniest of beauties, those ever present, immutable though often elusive truths, pure and simple as a raindrop on a daisy.”
― Jonathan Evison, The Heart of Winter

tags: live-life-to-the-fullest

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