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“This is the kingdom of God, the kingdom of danger and of risk, of eternal beginning and eternal becoming, of opened spirit and of deep realization, the kingdom of holy insecurity.”
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“You are a piece of the
puzzle of someone else's life.
You may never know where you fit,
but others will fill the holes
in their lives
with pieces of you.”
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puzzle of someone else's life.
You may never know where you fit,
but others will fill the holes
in their lives
with pieces of you.”
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“To be a priest is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.”
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“Church means giving up the fantasy that we can find fulfillment and righteousness alone. It means doing things at inconvenient times with eccentric people in sometimes clumsy ways--because life is a team game, and on judgment day God will have nothing to say to us if we think we can come without the others.”
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“War is the extreme expression of division between people… but people are beguiled into this catastrophic trap by countless tiny steps of division. It begins way back in the virtuous little dissociations of oneself from the weaknesses that are all too evident in one’s neighbor.”
― Water at the Roots: Poems and Insights of a Visionary Farmer
― Water at the Roots: Poems and Insights of a Visionary Farmer
J.R.R. Tolkien
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