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Book cover for The Sportswriter
For now let me say only this: if sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing ...more
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Marilynne Robinson
“There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.”
Marilynne Robinson, Home

Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
“Faith is a thread Slender and frail, Easy to tear; Yet it can lift The weight of a soul Up from despair. MATTHEW BILLER”
Mrs. Charles E. Cowman, Streams in the Desert Morning and Evening: A 365-Day Devotional

Frederick Buechner
“Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you . . . remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God’s business . . . even your own life is not your business. It also is God’s business. Leave it to God. It is an astonishing thought. It can become a life-transforming thought . . . unclench the fists of your spirit and take it easy . . . What deadens us most to God’s presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continuously engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought. I suspect that there is nothing more crucial to true spiritual comfort . . . than being able from time to time to stop that chatter . . . ”
Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets: A Celebrated Author's Candid Memoir of a Father's Suicide and Its Influence on a Son and Minister

George Orwell
“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.”
George Orwell, 1984

G.K. Chesterton
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
G.K. Chesterton

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