“the only unfailing guide I’ve ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright, beautiful, love’s flame is so fragile… keeping one’s love burning, and living in accord with that burning: this, to me, is prayer.”
― God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
― God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
“All human giving is fiction giving. Only the Absolute nonfictively owns; hence only the Absolute can nonfictively give; hence the mortal who believes that he or she owns, stands no chance of receiving what the Absolute has to nonfictively give.”
― God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
― God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right
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