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In fact, it was the religion of Calvin of which Sandy felt deprived, or rather a specified recognition of it. She desired this birthright; something definite to reject. It pervaded the place in proportion as it was unacknowledged. In some ways the most real and rooted people whom Sandy knew were Miss Gaunt and the Kerr sisters who made no evasions about their believe that Gold had planned for practically everybody before they were born an nasty surprise when they died. Later, when Sandy read John Calvin, she found that although popular conceptions of Calvinism were sometimes mistaken, in this particular there was no mistake, indeed it was but a mild understanding of the case, he having made it God's pleasure to implant in certain people an erroneous since of joy and salvation, so that their surprise at the end might be the nastier.
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god
religion
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Muriel Spark |
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61aaeee
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The practice of the presence of God, though we begin it at special times of prayer, is designed to spill out and over and into all times.
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god
prayer
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Peter Kreeft |
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da04ccf
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For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you - with your lusts and your adulteries and the timid lies you used to tell - can change like this, we could all be saints by leaping as you leapt, by shutting the eyes and leaping once and for all: if you are a saint, it's not so difficult to be a saint. It's something He can demand of any of us, leap.
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god
lies
lust
saints
sin
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Graham Greene |
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309de7e
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What the poet has to say to the torso of the supposed Apollo, however, is more than a note on an excursion to the antiquities collection. The author's point is not that the thing depicts an extinct god who might be of interest to the humanistically educated, but that the god in the stone constitutes a thing-construct that is still on air. We are dealing with a document of how newer message ontology outgrew traditional theologies. Here, being itself is understood as having more power to speak and transmit, and more potent authority, than God, the ruling idol of religions. In modern times, even a God can find himself among the pretty figures that no longer mean anything to us - assuming they do not become openly irksome. The thing filled with being, however, does not cease to speak to us when its moment has come.
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being
god
poet
poetry
rilke
thing-poem
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Peter Sloterdijk |
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d33c315
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Women aren't mean the way that men are. They're full of life and they're like God in that way.
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femimism
god
religion
women
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Heather O'Neill |
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fb40559
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That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence.
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god
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Colum McCann |
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fbd009e
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We have all heard of these things before. The love letter arriving as the teacup falls. The guitar striking up as the last breath sounds out. I don't attribute it to God or to sentiment. Perhaps it's a chance. Or perhaps chance is just another way to try to convince ourselves that we are valuable.
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god
sentiment
serendipity
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Colum McCann |
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e13d27e
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The scientific world of the time was in the midst of a terrible ferment, with discoveries and realizations coming at an unseemly rate. To many in the ranks of the conservative and the devout, the new theories of geology and biology were delivering a series of hammer blows to mankind's self-regard. Geologists in particular seemed to have gone berserk, to have thrown off all sense of proper obeisance to their Maker... Mankind, it seemed, was now suddenly rather - dare one say it? - insignificant. He may not have been, as he had eternally supposed, specially created.
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geography
geology
god
science
volcanism
volcano
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Simon Winchester |
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a3a6adc
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The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.
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books
god
jesus-christ
promises
promises-in-the-dark
world
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Beth Moore Jones |
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635dc6d
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The Kingdom of God is a tricky concept, and I was always taught it referred to our heavenly reward for being good, which, now that I actually read the Bible for myself, makes very little sense. Others say that the Kingdom of God is another way of talking about the church, and still others say that it's the dream God has for the wholeness of the world, a dream being made true little by little among us right here, right now. My answer? All of the above.
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christian-faith
christianity
faith
god
jesus
kingdom-of-god
lutheran
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Nadia Bolz-Weber |
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6ab4652
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Human love can be only a pale reflection of the emotion that God must feel for what He has created
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creation
emotions
feelings
god
human
love
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Graham Greene |
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1337cf7
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But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
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god
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Bruce Feiler |
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9c343e6
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That story you heard? About how we were all created by a super-powerful dude named God who lives up in the sky? Total bullshit. The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. Oh, and by the way... there's no Santa Claus or Easter Bunny. Also bullshit. Sorry, kid. Deal with it.
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god
growing-up
santa-claus
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Ernest Cline |
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f10c1fc
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God's self-revelation is a higher authority than our feelings.
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bible
fear
god
worry
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Edward T. Welch |
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0bc579f
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A common response in surveys of religious attitudes is to say something like, 'I don't go to church, but I have my own personal idea of God.' This kind of statement makes me in turn react like a philosopher. Soppy, I cry. You have your own personal idea of God, but does God have His own personal idea of you? Because that's what matters. Whether He's an old man with a white beard sitting in the sky, or a life force, or a disinterested prime mover, or a clockmaker, or a woman, or a nebulous moral force, or nothing at all, what counts is what He, She, It, or Nothing thinks of you rather than you of them.
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god
religion
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Julian Barnes |
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ea5ed26
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"R.I.P. Jerry Lewis
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chance
god
jerry
jerry-lewis
laugh
laughter
lewis
life
r-i-p
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Anthony T.Hincks |
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391d03c
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When I hit the bitumen and get that smooth grey rumble going under me everything's hell different. Like I'm in a fresh new world all slick and flat and easy. Even with the engine working up a howl and the wind flogging in the window the sounds are real soft and pillowy. Civilized I mean. Like you're still on the earth but you don't hardly notice it anymore. And that's hectic. You'd think I never got in a car before. But when you've hoofed it like a dirty goat all these weeks and months, when you've had the stony slow prickle-up hard country right in your face that long it's bloody sudden. Some crazy shit, I tell you. Brings on this angel feeling. Like you're just one arrow of light.
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god
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Tim Winton |
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c1c1d68
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Only a master weaver could intertwine dark and light threads in such a way that all one saw was beauty when looking back at the finished tapestry.
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challenges
god
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Karen Witemeyer |
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f04ffc6
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"The devil has a thousand names," said Crews, voice rising, "but the name he takes the most pride in is Prince of Lies, because he is such a convincing fraud. Even God himself was fooled by Satan once, so what hope do we have to tell what's truth and what's false?"
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god
lie
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Robert Ferrigno |
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bbf12e6
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He was thankful not to have to believe in God, for then such a condition of things would be intolerable; one could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless.(the whole world was like a sick-house, and there was no rhyme or reason in it)
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god
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W. Somerset Maugham |
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fd16506
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"I believe in the unity of all living things. God is in us and in all that exists." "So, when you eat a carrot, aren't you eating God?"
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god
humor
left-behind
ryan
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Jerry B. Jenkins |
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3890fde
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If I looked into a mirror, and did not see my face, I should have the sort of feeling which actually comes upon me, when I look into this living busy world, and see no reflexion of its Creator.
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god
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John Henry Newman |
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a8bfbf9
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Only the artistic will to transform the future into a space of unlimited art-elevating chances enables us to understand the core of the procreation rule: 'a creator shall you create [...] a self-propelling wheel, a first movement'. This rule contains no less than Nietzsche's theology after the death of God: there will continue to be a God and gods, but only humanity-immanent ones, and only to the extent that there are creators who follow on from what has been achieved in order to go higher, faster and further.
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artistry
creation
death-of-god
god
humanity
immanence
nietzsche
thought-provoking
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Peter Sloterdijk |
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d89020e
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In the monotheistic age, God was viewed as the one who causes and does everything, and hence humans were not entitled to make something, let alone a great deal, of themselves. In humanistic epochs, by contrast, man is considered the being responsible for causing and doing everything - but consequently no longer has the right to make little or nothing of himself. Whether people now make nothing or much of themselves, they commit - according to traditional forms of logic - an inexplicable and unpardonable error. There is always a surplus of differences that cannot be integrated into any of the prescribed systems of life-interpretation. In a world that belongs to God, human beings make too much of themselves as soon as they raise their heads; in a world that belongs to humans, they repeatedly make too little of themselves. The possibility that the inequality between humans might be due to their asceticisms, their different stances towards the challenges of the practising life - this idea has never been formulated in the history of investigations into the ultimate causes of difference between humans. If one follows this trail, it opens up perspectives that, being unthought-of, are literally unheard-of.
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ascetics
god
secular
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Peter Sloterdijk |
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779ad15
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"These workers," said Mendes with a gentle sweep of his arm, "have a hard life of it. When illness comes they have no money for a doctor. The food for tomorrow comes from today's labour, and hard labour it is, too. Their houses, as you see, are small and poor; they are never more than a stone's throw away from privation and want. They've made a bad bargain with life; they need the thought of God to comfort them."
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god
illness
van-gogh
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Irving Stone |
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988eb60
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"Remember!" she called, as she followed him up the narrow ladders towards the bridge. "It is only a matter of scale and experience. You are not a fraction of the whole. You are a version of the whole! Time will seem to eddy and stall. This is scale. Everything is sentient, but scale alters perception. The time of a tree is not your time." It was as if she shouted to him all she had meant to teach him before this moment. "To the snail the foot which comes from nowhere and crushes him is as natural a disaster as a hurricane; it cannot be appealed to and is impossible to anticipate. The time of a star is not our time. Equity is the natural condition of the multiverse. There are things to fear in the colour fields, but not the fields themselves! Remember, Sam, we are God in miniature!"
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faith
god
life
philosophy
religion
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Michael Moorcock |
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67168ac
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"No attempt should be made to "reconcile" Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. The tension cannot be resolved in a facile manner by suggesting, for example, that Pharaoh has already demonstrated his recalcitrance, so Yahweh merely helps the process along, or that he is doing what Pharaoh would have done on his own anyway. Rather, 9:12 is a striking reminder of what God has been trying to teach Moses and Israel since the beginning of the Exodus episode: He is in complete control. However Pharaoh might have reacted is given the chance is not brought into the discussion. He is not even given that chance. Yahweh hardens his heart. It is best to allow the tension of the text to remain."
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free-will
god
pharaoh
predestination
sovereignty
yahweh
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Peter Enns |
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87163ab
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He feels his soul slowly dissolving in a bitter lament for itself, whilst he searches desperately in his memory for a God to whom to offer up his repentance. And he discovers with surprise that he repents of nothing, although it is not clear either, as night closes in, that there is any God prepared to hear him.
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god
repentance
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte |
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fc32b93
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When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and mystery at the heart of existence.
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god
mystery
sacred
transcendence
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Karen Armstrong |
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5a96ace
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When it comes to Vought, or any corporate outfit really, all that counts to them is profit. They send their kids on planes built by the lowest bidder. They travel on the fuckin' things themselves. Company jets or first class, they still go on 'em. Safety costs. Money's God.
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god
lowest-bidder
money
profit
safety
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Garth Ennis |
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dc2f9cf
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In a time like this, let us trust in God even more. To trust when life is easy is no trust.
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canadian
faith
god
japan
japanese
trust
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Joy Kogawa |
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6faf505
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I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that a spirit was different from a person because it didn't have a body, wasn't material. And when he agreed, I asked how, if God was a spirit, He could be a man, if He didn't have a body or anything.
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chiara
god
religion
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Donna Leon |
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91b7f8e
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I can tell you only that beauty cannot be expressed or explained in a theory or an idea, that it moves by its own law, that it is God's way of comforting His broken children.
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god
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Mark Helprin |
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676e241
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"I don't see anything," Miller said. "What's it look like?" "The eye of an angry God?" Elvi said. "Oh," Miller said. The heavy plates of his robotic body clicked and hissed against each other as he shifted. "Yeah, well that's probably it, then. Good work."
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angry
detective-work
eye
god
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James S.A. Corey |
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b8bc0d2
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But these people were judged very stupid by their friends. Was not Jonathan Strange known to be precisely the sort of whimsical, contradictory person who would publish against himself?
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christianity
community
faith
family
god
godly
honor
obstacles
vows
word
world
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Susanna Clarke |
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37d3f1b
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He used to say, God is everywhere. In the work of your hands; in the beating of a bird's wings; in the roots of an oak and in the stones of the riverbed. In the rising of the sun. In the heart of a man. In the wonders we know, and those that are beyond our knowing.
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god
inspiration
nature-s-beauty
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Juliet Marillier |
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53fd5d2
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When you pretend you don't feel hurt or angry or devastated, you're not fooling God. Be honest! Don't misunderstand; I am not encouraging you to be angry at God or to blame him. He deserves no blame. Rather, I am encouraging you to honestly confess to God your feelings of hurt, resentment, and anger. Often we look at suffering from our perspective and forget that God sees from another vantage point.
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confess
confession
god
honest
honesty
hurt
pain
prayer
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Randy Alcorn |
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3cd0c80
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Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.
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god
gun
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Gregory David Roberts |
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56a1112
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I want the capital-G God the televangelists claim moves tornadoes out of their paths. The one who cures cancer and arthritis in the faithful, the God professional athletes thank for taking an interest in the outcome of the Super Bowl or World Cup or home run in the 87th of 162 games played by the Red Sox this year.
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athiesm
god
natural-disasters
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Dennis Lehane |
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3d8180a
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One of the gifts we receive from Jesus is an entirely new foundation upon which to build our lives. Once you receive Him, He becomes your new foundation and every day you walk with Him, you build on it.
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gifts
god
inspirational
jesus
life
love
prayer
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Stormie Omartian |
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861cfbc
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The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally Apocalyptic. It was now the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.
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church
congregationalist
dodo
god
presbyterian
unitarian
utterly-indifferent
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Kurt Vonnegut Jr. |
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8f2c5f9
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"He leaned in. "Now. My turn. Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of that search. "And no matter how far they try to go to the other way---to extend life, play around with the genes, clone this, clone that, live to one hundred and fifty---at some point, life is over. And then what happens? When life comes to an end?" I shrugged. "You see?" He leaned back. He smiled. "When you come to the end, that's where God begins."
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god
god-s-presence
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Mitch Albom |
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fa6c4d5
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It's only when we acknowledge God as the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, that we can receive His love for us.
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christianity
god
god-s-love
holy-spirit
inspirational
motivational
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Stormie Omartian |
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fa0b2d7
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Obedience to God's Word begins by being determined to make no compromise with His ways. It requires a clear understanding that God's rules and laws are for your benefit, and for you to do all you can to live by them.
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christian-living
christianity
god
god-s-word
inspirational
motivational-quotes
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Stormie Omartian |
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b68fb29
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If you're being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God's hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!
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god
guilt
inspiration
parent
truth
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Stormie Omartian |
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3e07718
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If your attitude is one of gratefully searching for God's truth & goodness in any situation, it will change your life.
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christian
god
hope
inspirational
motivational-quotes
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Stormie Omartian |
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d2939fb
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Know that we never have to walk in darkness. Even when we get into dark times or dark situations, God's light is always there to be found!
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god
life
light
quotes
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Stormie Omartian |
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cf79463
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When you receive God's love, it means you're getting close to Him, spending time in His presence, opening your heart to Him, seeking to know Him, and desiring to be more like Him. Remember that choosing to receive God's love changes your life.
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changes
choose-love
god
life
love
presence
quotes
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Stormie Omartian |
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5178ab4
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If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.
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god
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Kate Atkinson |
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d5bb84d
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Over time, there would be less and less of him and more of the tumor. His brain was being eaten by God. He left the clinic in fine spirits. He had no intention of removing the tumor. It was the perfect solution to his dilemma: how to feed his body's desire for intimacy. He was delusional, of course. There was no higher presence filling him with love, connecting him to all things. It only felt that way. But that was fine. That was ideal. He would not have trusted a God outside his head.
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delusions
god
intimacy
lexicon
tumor
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Max Barry |
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8e0feda
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Jesus is the Commander of two armies. One is an army of angels in heaven and one is the army of prayer warriors on earth. As Commander of these armies, He shows us how to take back from the enemy all he has stolen that is rightfully ours. We do that in prayer as prayer warriors!
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commander
god
prayer
warrior
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Stormie Omartian |
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730bcf0
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What we need is a new God. Somebody who knows what the fuck he's doing.
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god
higher-power
religion
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Edward P. Jones |
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3f5c16d
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Uzhe togda padre Antonio Isabel' nachal proiavliat' pervye priznaki starcheskogo slaboumiia, kotoroe cherez neskol'ko let zastavilo ego skazat', chto, veroiatno, d'iavol oderzhal pobedu v svoem miatezhe protiv Boga i vossel na prestole nebesnom, nikomu ne otkryvaia, kto on takoi na samom dele, daby zavlekat' v svoi seti neostorozhnykh (<>, G.G. Markes)
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god
бог
дьявол
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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35c6539
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Be gentle and forbearing with one another and, if one has a difference(a grievance or complaint) against another, readily pardoning each other; even as the Lord has [freely] forgiven you, so must you also [forgive]. ( Colossians 3:13 )
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god
love
religion
self-help
spirituality
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Joyce Meyer |
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a0da58a
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God can only show you eternity if you are willing to let go completely of the now.
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god
time
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Sean Patrick Brennan |
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8f03c0f
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"My religious friends - and my friends were almost all Catholics or Protestants or occasionally something more exotic like Jewish or Greek Orthodox - were convinced that God had a "plan" for us, and since God was good, it was a good plan, which we were required to endorse even without having any idea what it was. Just sign the paperwork; in other words, don't overintellectualize."
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god
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Barbara Ehrenreich |
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ba31433
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"Most accounts of mystical experiences... insist that the Other in the encounter appears to be "living" or alive, as in "living God." But is it alive in any biological sense? Does it eat and metabolize? Does it reproduce - an option that monotheism would seem to foreclose?"
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god
living
monotheism
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Barbara Ehrenreich |
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c333b9b
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Proof of the beginning of time probably ranks as the most theologically significant theorem. This great significance arises from the theorem establishing that the universe must be caused by some Entity capable of creating the universe entirely independent of space and time. Such an entity matches the attributes of the God of the Bible but is contradicted by the gods of the eastern (and indeed all other) religions who create within space and time.
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astrophysics
big-bang
god
religion
science
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Hugh Ross |
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2b16b9b
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The impasse was this: If I let myself speculate even tentatively about that something, if I acknowledged the possibility of a nonhuman agent or agents, some mysterious Other, intervening in my life, could I still call myself an atheist?
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god
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Barbara Ehrenreich |
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b740012
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Outside the port, the slashed rock of the unnamed asteroid tumbled and spun in dynamics known only to the gods of chaos mathematics.
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chaos
dynamics
god
gods-of-chaos
mathematics
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Dan Simmons |
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eea680c
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The Creator puts life into motion, and doesn't just sit around all day moving each and every piece this way and that on his whims. If life was just one gigantic board game, God isn't the banker or the leader, or even a collection of all the players. God is just the one who invented the game. You can be pissed all you want when something awful or even evil happens during the game, but you have no right to go and sue Milton Bradley.
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god
life
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Sean Patrick Brennan |
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ea639a3
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Her favourite song was 'God Has Blotted Them Out,' which was meant to be about sins, but really was about anyone who had ever annoyed her, which was everyone. She just didn't like anyone and she just didn't like life. Life was a burden to be carried as far as the grave and then dumped. Life was a Vale of Tears. Life was a pre-death experience.
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death
god
life
misanthropy
religion
revenge
vengeance
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Jeanette Winterson |
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6a8ccca
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Both Genesis and science say that the universe is geared to supporting human life. But Genesis says more. It says that you, as a human being, bear the image of God. The starry heavens show the glory of God, yes; but they are not made in God's image. You are. That makes you unique. It gives you incalculable value. The galaxies are unimaginably large compared with you. However, you know that they exist, but they don't know that you exist. You are more significant, therefore, than a galaxy.
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genesis
god
human-life
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John C. Lennox |
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029c438
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I cannot at the same time accept the glory and give God the glory... Glorifying God means being occupied with and committed to His ways rather than preoccupied with and determined my own way. It is being so thrilled with Him, so devoted to Him, so committed to Him that we cannot get enough of Him!
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glorifying-god
god
life
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Charles R. Swindoll |
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ffd2f65
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He could see himself selling himself as a compelling mutation, a young god, proud to the point of sexy arrogance of his anatomical deviation: ninety percent thriving muscled man-flesh and ten percent glorious blindingly white angel wing.
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god
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Michael Cunningham |
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dfbc706
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Credinta, oricat de pasionata, de pura, de arzatoare, nu spune absolut nimic despre realitatea existentei lui Dumnezeu
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god
god-existence
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Irvin D. Yalom |
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a1615f1
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We have hands; we can stand on them if we want to. That's our privilege. That's the joy of a mortal body. And that's why God needs us. Because God loves to feel things through our hands.
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god
life
mortality
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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8cb309a
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I once read a short story about some cannibals who didn't turn their victims into steaks and chops and roasts; they made them all into sausages. Because when you're eating a sausage you don't think so much about what you're eating. It's the same with communion wafers. .......... My point is, the miracle of the Holy Communion is when the priest turns these little white disks into the flesh of Jesus Christ. They call it transubstantiation. So, if you buy that, then the host the priest places on your tongue is actually a silver of Jesus meat. But they make the host as different from meat as they can, so even though communion is a form of cannibalism, nobody gets grossed out. Like with the sausages.
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god
humor
religion
transubstantiation
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Pete Hautman |
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922cff1
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The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.
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attention
awe
beauty
diversity
enlightenment
god
grace
humanity
life
life-force
love
mindfulness
mystery
on-being
religion
spirit
wisdom
wonder
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Krista Tippett |
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As Father, the authority he claims for himself is the authority of compassion. That authority comes from letting the sins of his children pierce his heart. There is no lust, greed, anger, resentment, jealousy, or vengeance in his lost children that has not cause immense grief to his heart. The grief is so deep because the heart is so pure. From the deep inner place where love embraces all human grief, the Father reaches out to his children. The touch of his hands, radiating inner light, seeks only to heal. Here is the God I want to believe in: a Father who, from the beginning of creation, has stretched out his arms in merciful blessing, never forcing himself on anyone, but always waiting; never letting his arms drop down in despair, but always hoping that his children will return so that he can speak words of love to them and let his tired arms rest on their shoulders. His only desire is to bless. In Latin, to bless is benedicere, which means literally: saying good things. The Father wants to say, more with his touch than with his voice, good things of his children. He has no desire to punish them. They have always been punished excessively by their own inner or outer waywardness. The Father wants simply to let them know that the love they have searched for in such distorted ways has been, is, and always will be there for them. The Father wants to say, more with his hands than with his mouth: 'You are my Beloved, on you my favor rests.' He is the shepherd, 'feeding his flock, gathering lambs in his arms, holding them against his breast.' The true center of Rembrandt's painting is the hands of the father.
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father
god
love
rembrandt
sin
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Henri J.M. Nouwen |
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Sometimes pain is God's megaphone, his only way to get our attention.
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god
pain
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Robert Hellenga |
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"DODENS DAGBOK: PARISARNA Sommaren kom. For boktjuven var allt frid och frojd. Dor mig - var himlen judefargad. Nar deras kroppar hade slutat soka efter springor i dorren steg deras sjalar upp. Nar deras naglar hade klost mot traet och i vissa fall satt fastnaglade i det av blotta kraften i desperationen, kom deras sjalar mot mig, in i min famn, och vi steg ut ur de dar duschanlaggningarna, upp pa taket och vidare uppat, in i evighetens absoluta vidder. De bara fortsatte att fylla pa at mig. Minut for minut. Dusch efter dusch. Jag kommer aldrig att glomma den forsta dagen i Auschwitz, den forsta gangen i Mauthausen. Pa det senare stallet fick jag ocksa med tiden plocka upp dem fran stupet nedanfor den valdiga klippan, nar deras forsok att undkomma stortat dem i avgrunden. Dar lag brutna kroppar och doda omma hjartan. Men, det var anda battre an gasen. Nagra av dem fangade jag upp nar de bara hunnit halvvags ner. Dar besparade jag dig nagot, tankte jag, och holl sjalen mitt i luften medan resten av varelsen - det fysiska skalet - tumlade till marken. Alla var latta, som tomma valnotsskal. Rokig himmel pa de stallena. Luktade som en ugn men var anda sa kallt. Jag ryser nar jag minns det - medan jag forsoker overkliggora det. Jag blaser varmluft i mina hander for att varma dem. Men det ar svart att halla dem varma nar sjalarna fortfarande skalver. Gud. Jag sager alltid det namnet nar jag tanker pa det har. Gud. Tva ganger sager jag det. Jag sager hans namn i ett fafangt forsok att forsta. "Men det ar inte ditt jobb att forsta." Det ar jag sjalv som svarar. Gud sager aldrig nagot. Trodde du att du var den enda som han aldrig svarar? "Ditt jobb ar att ...", och dar slutar jag lyssna till mig sjalv, eftersom jag, om jag ska vara riktigt arlig, gor mig sjalv alldeles trott. Nar jag borjar tanka pa det sattet blir jag sa utmattad, och jag har inte den lyxen att jag kan ge efter for trotthet. Jag ar tvingad att fortsatta, for aven om det inte galler varenda person pa jorden galler det den stora majoriteten - att doden inte vantar pa nagon - och om han gor det brukar han inte vanta sarskilt lange."
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faith
god
holocaust
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Markus Zusak |
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"I say His name in a futile attempt to understand. "But it's not your job to understand." That's me who answers. God never says anything. Tou think you're the only one he never answers?"
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god
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Markus Zusak |