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The Imperfect Pastor: Discovering Joy in Our Limitations through a Daily Apprenticeship with Jesus
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there is beauty and arson in desire.
“It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“If the concept of God has any validity or any use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, then it is time we got rid of Him.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“According to Flaubert, the artist inhabits his or her work as God does: present everywhere, but visible nowhere.”
― Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
― Silence and Beauty: Hidden Faith Born of Suffering
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