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The Past

by Tessa Hadley

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Jayber Crow

by Wendell Berry

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“I extended to them [my congregation] an invitation to join me in this crazy practice of picturing our discouragement and doubt as a real force that wants to defy God, then to join me in picturing evil and darkness not as powerful and unstoppable but as desperate and vulnerable.”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

tags: darkness, evil, spiritual-warfare

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“The most simple and mundane things can take on deep and memorable dimensions depending on where we are, or with whom, or any number of things.”
― Will Willingham, Adjustments

tags: depth, memorable-moments

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“Some people get to keep asserting themselves even after they're gone, it seems.”
― Will Willingham, Adjustments

tags: influence

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“The question is what story do you need to tell, in order to give notice to that thing with fangs that keeps chewing through your insides.”
― Will Willingham, Adjustments

tags: power-of-stories, power-of-words, story, storytelling

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“What if forgiveness, rather than being a pansy way of saying it's OK, is actually a way of wielding bolt cutters and snapping the chain that links us?”
― Nadia Bolz-Weber, Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint

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