“Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“It masks its hatred of dissenters from its utopian ideology in the guise of helping and healing.”
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
― Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents
“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
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“The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.”
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
― Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
― I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
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