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2/22/24 I pretty badly want only one ending, but I trust the author for now.
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Wendell Berry
“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.”
Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

G.K. Chesterton
“There is a thought that stops thought. That is the only thought that ought to be stopped.”
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

Wendell Berry
“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.”
Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow

G.K. Chesterton
“Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive frame of mind; praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul.”
G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage
“It is not your love that sustains the marriage, but from now on, the marriage that sustains your love.”
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