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“world, take my heart, which shrinks from the stark realism and ugliness of suffering, and expand it with Your love. Open it wide with the fire of Your love, as a rose is opened by the heat of the sun. Drive me by the strength of Your tenderness to come close to human pain. Give me hands that are hardened by pity, that will dip into any water and bathe any wound in mercy. Give me Your hands, hands that heal the blind by their touch, hands that raise the dead and are nailed to the cross; give me Your hands to tend the wounds of the body and the wounds of the mind.”
― The Way of the Cross
― The Way of the Cross
“When I think of all I have to be thankful for I wonder that You just don't kill me now because You've done so much for me already & I haven't been particularly grateful.”
― A Prayer Journal
― A Prayer Journal
“I was quiet, but I was not blind.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“I do not know You God because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.”
― A Prayer Journal
― A Prayer Journal
“She had finally come so far that she seemed to be seeing her own life from the uppermost summit of a mountain pass. Now her path led down into the darkening valley, but first she had been allowed to see that in the solitude of the cloister and in the doorway of death someone was waiting for her who had always seen the lives of people the way villages look from a mountain crest. He had seen sin and sorrow, love and hatred in their hearts, the way the wealthy estates and poor hovels, the bountiful acres and the abandoned wastelands are all borne by the same earth. And he had come down among them, his feet had wandered among the lands, stood in the castles and in huts, gathering the sorrows and sins of the rich and the poor, and lifting them high up with him on the cross." (1081)”
― Kristin Lavransdatter
― Kristin Lavransdatter
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