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“I have been trying for a long time to understand God. Now I have made friends with him. To love him truly you must love change, and you must love a joke, these being the true inclinations of his own heart.”
― Seven Gothic Tales
― Seven Gothic Tales
“Hello, 911? I am the first person at this party.”
― Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
― Wow, No Thank You.: Essays
“I’m used to it now, the waiting. An incomplete, unhurried emergence of understanding, sitting with questions that are sometimes never answered.”
― Stone Yard Devotional
― Stone Yard Devotional
“But for an individual human being, moments are the thing. Moments are what we remember and what we cherish. Certainly we might celebrate achieving a goal, such as completing a marathon or landing a significant client—but the achievement is embedded in a moment. Every culture has its prescribed set of big moments: birthdays and weddings and graduations, of course, but also holiday celebrations and funeral rites and political traditions. They seem “natural” to us. But notice that every last one of them was invented, dreamed up by anonymous authors who wanted to give shape to time. This is what we mean by “thinking in moments”: to recognize where the prose of life needs punctuation.”
― The Power of Moments: Why Certain Moments Have Extraordinary Impact
― The Power of Moments: Why Certain Moments Have Extraordinary Impact
“First of all, why you would ask a man anything is beyond me.”
― Wow, No Thank You.
― Wow, No Thank You.
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