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“The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.”
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“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”
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“Man depends on God for all things: God depends on man for one. Without man's love God does not exist as God, only as creator, and love is the one thing no one, not even God himself, can command. It is a free gift or it is nothing. And it is most itself, most free, when it is offered in spite of suffering, of injustice, and of death . . . The justification of the injustice of the universe is not our blind acceptance of God's inexplicable will, nor our trust in God's love, his dark and incomprehensible love, for us, but our human love, notwithstanding anything, for him.”
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“The right to be ridiculous is something I hold dear...”
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“Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.”
― Lamp is Lit, Leaves From a Journal
― Lamp is Lit, Leaves From a Journal
Alade’s 2025 Year in Books
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