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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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“How did orders, whether federal, state, or local, meant to protect public health ever come to be seen as a restriction of rights or liberty? It happens when freedom becomes license unbounded by concern for others.”
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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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“Who can open the door who does not reach for the latch?
Who can travel the miles who does not put one foot in front of the other, all attentive to what presents itself continually?”
― New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
Who can travel the miles who does not put one foot in front of the other, all attentive to what presents itself continually?”
― New and Selected Poems, Vol. 2
“There are no useful self-help books on being holy.”
― Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life
― Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life
J.R.R. Tolkien
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