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Joel Niklasson
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“I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.”
― Meditation for Christians: Entering the Mind of Christ
― Meditation for Christians: Entering the Mind of Christ
“An Eskimo shaman said, "Life’s greatest danger lies in the fact that man’s food consists entirely of souls".”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“Poets are powerless to force the gift of words onto blank paper; but poets can freely choose to assume the inner stance that offers the least resistance to being overtaken and carried along by the gift of poetry.”
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“Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
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