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Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach to Finding God's Will

by Kevin DeYoung (Goodreads Author)

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Mar 16, 2021 06:39AM

“The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.”
― Rachel Carson

tags: beauty, discovery, majesty, nature, ocean, poetry, science, sea, tides, truthful, wonder

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“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
― Isaac Newton

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“Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know.”
― Rumi, Words of Paradise: Selected Poems of Rumi

tags: inspirational

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“It is easy to believe we are each waves and forget we are also the ocean.”
― Jon J. Muth

tags: haiku, neighbors, spelling, zen

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“You've seen the sun flatten and take strange shapes just before it sinks in the ocean. Do you have to tell yourself every time that it's an illusion caused by atmospheric dust and light distorted by the sea, or do you simply enjoy the beauty of it?”
― John Steinbeck, Sweet Thursday

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