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The citrus in the store looks impossible, like the pretend plastic fruit in the plastic basket that came with my sons’ toy grocery cart. I have no desire for fruit that bleached over and shiny.
“As an inmate of a concentration camp, Corrie Ten Boom heard a commotion, and saw a short distance away a prison guard mercilessly beating a female prisoner. “What can we do for these people?” Corrie whispered. “Show them that love is greater,” Betsie replied. In that moment, Corrie realized her sister’s focus was on the prison guard, not the victim she was watching. Betsie saw the world through a different lens. She considered the actions of greatest moral gravity to be the ones we originate, not the ones we suffer.”
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
“I think what I’ve realized is, life is all about climbing up, slipping down, and picking yourself up again. And it doesn’t matter if you slip down. As long as you’re kind of heading more or less upwards. That’s all you can hope for. More or less upwards.”
― Finding Audrey
― Finding Audrey
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake”
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“The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.”
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“Our lives are more like a canvas on which we paint, than a script we need to learn – though the illusion of the latter appeals to us by its lower risk.”
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
― The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
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