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“The most precious thing I have to tell you about is the sadness. You don’t have to talk about pain, but you have to live out of your pain. Speak out of your depths. Speak out of who you truly are. And when somebody says, “How are you?” don’t say, “I’m fine.” Maybe just say, “Well, I’m not so good. How are you?” Then let the conversation move. Talk not about it, but talk out of it. And, I mean, literally talk in this place.”
― A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
― A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
“What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.”
― A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
― A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory
“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you.”
― Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC
― Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC
“To say that I was born again, to use that traditional phrase, is to say too much because I remained in most ways as self-centered and squeamish after the fact as I was before, and God knows remain so still. And in another way to say that I was born again is to say too little because there have been more than a few such moments since, times when from beyond time something too precious to tell has glinted in the dusk, always just out of reach, like fireflies.”
― The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days – A Spiritual Chronicle of How God Speaks in Everyday Moments from Childhood to Seminary
― The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days – A Spiritual Chronicle of How God Speaks in Everyday Moments from Childhood to Seminary
“I believe without the miracles I have prayed for then; that is what I am explaining. I believe because certain, uncertain things have happened, dim half-miracles, sermons and silences and what not. Perhaps it is the believing itself that is the miracle I believe by. Perhaps it is the miracle of my own life, that I, who might so easily not have been, am; who might so easily at any moment, even now, give the whole thing up, nonetheless by God’s grace do not give it up and am not given up by it.”
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