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This book changed my life by taking me deeper with Gospel and see God’s love for me. This makes modern theology books worth hardly anything. Top 10 theology books I have ever read and they were only pastoral letters from prison. I want to be more lik ...more "
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“The limits of my language means the limits of my world.”
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
“There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
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