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“There are no useful self-help books on being holy.”
― Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life
― Being Disciples: Essentials of the Christian Life
“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
“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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“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
“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.”
―
J.R.R. Tolkien
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