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“You might think that our troubles and our striving would end if we reached a state of near equality with others. They won’t. Every state of equality achieved through competition is unstable. And so our striving to catch up and overtake—and suffering when we fail—continues.”

“Everybody, even the worst stinker on earth, is somebody for whom Christ died.”

So it begins

“Mercy, GOD, mercy!”: the prayer is not an attempt to get God to do what he is unwilling otherwise to do, but a reaching out to what we know that he does do, an expressed longing to receive what God is doing in and for us in Jesus Christ.”

“God needs the hermit in the woods as much as He needs the man in the pulpit. Did you ever think about that?”

“Depression began its ascent when the disciplinary model for behaviors, the rules of authority and observance of taboos that gave social classes as well as both sexes a specific destiny, broke against norms that invited us to undertake personal initiative by enjoining us to be ourselves. . . . The depressed individual is unable to measure up; he is tired of having to become himself.”

Really fascinating.