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we can only encounter God, or not encounter God, in the life we have, even if it is a life of bourgeois comfort, a life lived at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs—well, that’s my ridiculously privileged life, and I have to reckon with
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“Asking children to grow virtues hydroponically, looking only within themselves for guidance, is like asking each one to invent a personal language―a pointless and isolating task if there is no community with whom to speak.”
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“Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women. The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. In Love’s service, only wounded soldiers can serve. Physician, draw back.”
― The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
― The Collected Short Plays of Thornton Wilder
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