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“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

tags: faith, thankfulness

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“Oh”
― Vigen Guroian, The Fragrance of God

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“While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

tags: humility, knowing-god

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“A true gardener would never pretend that gardening is all pleasure, or that it always prompts reflection.
But she might claim that in the garden she has tasted Paradise.”
― Vigen Guroian, The Fragrance of God

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“To save myself, I would try to summon up a vision of Mattie, but I could not see her. I could not imagine her. Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.
And then I would wake up and be in awe to see the daylight coming and my old familiar workaday life taking shape again in the dear world. Coherence and clarity returned. I could imagine myself again. I could imagine Mattie Chatham. I could imagine Port William.”
― Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

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