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There There

by Tommy Orange (Goodreads Author)

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Oct 21, 2025 11:33AM

“God works with the world as it is in order to bring it to where it can be. Prayer changes the way the world is, and therefore changes what the world can be. Prayer opens the world to its own transformation.”
― Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, In God's Presence

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“Monastic contemplatives have staked out a clearly limited area to be transformed by contemplation: the monastery. Lay contemplatives face the challenge of transforming the whole world.”
― David Steindl-Rast

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