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“It doesn’t matter if anyone knows the answer, it can be good to ask the question anyway.
“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
“Early love is exciting and exhilarating. It's light and bubbly. Anyone can love like that. But after three children, after a separation and a near-divorce, after you've hurt each other and forgiven each other, bored each other and surprised each other, after you've seen the worst and the best-- well, that sort of love is ineffable. It deserves its own word.”
― What Alice Forgot
― What Alice Forgot
“The opposite of faith is not doubt, it’s certainty.”
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“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
“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
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