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“Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn’t see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“Ten thousand women marched through the streets shouting, 'We will not be dictated to,' and went off and became stenographers.”
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“It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”
― Letters and Papers from Prison
― Letters and Papers from Prison
“There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.”
― Orthodoxy
― Orthodoxy
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