Donovan Colegrove
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Jesus moves according to a different kind of logic. At his own risk and danger he goes up to the leper and he restores him, he heals him. In so doing, he shows us a new horizon, the logic of a God who is love, a God who desires the
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“In English, there is no verb ‘to river’. But what could be more of a verb than a river?”
― Is a River Alive?
― Is a River Alive?
“It reminded me that if you spend a few hours in a national park, you check it off a list. If you spend a few days, you develop an attachment that lasts a long time, maybe even a lifetime. If you spend more than that, you become an advocate, a defender, an evangelist.”
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
“I had thought once past there my reward will begin, but now everything seems kind of empty and I find I already have my reward—in the doing of the thing. The stars and cliffs and canyons, the roar of the rapids, the moon, the uncertainty, worry, the relief when thru each one, the campfires at night, the real respect and friendship of the rivermen I met.”
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
“It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations.”
― 1984
― 1984
“When darkness is at its darkest, that is the beginning of all light.”
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
― Lassoing the Sun: A Year in America's National Parks
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