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«Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.»
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«The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.»
Author: Frederick Buechner
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«Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but»
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«Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.»
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«Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst»
«If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.»
«Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.»
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«It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.»
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«In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.»
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