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Starting a novel demands a conscious falling through the window, a journey through the looking glass, and a return to the imaginative courage of the child. P 145

He didn’t disagree that God may have other plans for me, but he said sometimes we have to “live the question,” not push for the answer. P 532

“I can’t tell you what to do. But if I could live this life one more time, that’s what I would want to do. Out of my fear, out of helplessness. In order to be less fearful, and to really help. You should pray about it. Only you can know.” P 507

…”sometimes when you are most afraid, when you feel the most helpless, that is what God is pointing out a path for you.” P 507

“You don’t need to give anything up. Your whole life is Lent right now.” He told me to take up the practice of pleasure: to intentionally embrace enjoyment as a discipline. P 136

We can’t be holy in the abstract. Instead, we become a holy blacksmith or a holy mother or a holy physician or a holy systems analyst. We seek God in and through our particular vocation and place in life.. p 94