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“God uses our words—sometimes. But God doesn’t depend on them. Neither does our salvation. Some of the most important things in life happen wordlessly.”
—Miroslav Volf

"People sometimes say that God becomes clearer in moments of suffering, but this is not necessarily true. What becomes clear is one's *longing* for God. Everything is stripped away, and very little else seems to matter. After living with cancer for twenty years, I have been too close to death too many times to fear that anymore. What I fear is dying without God."
—from one of Christian Wiman's letters.