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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.
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Comforters for our todays / Guardians of memories / Keeping our youth and yesterdays alive / Comrades with one history.
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And when someone else speaks your name you feel pleased. You feel wanted. You feel there. Alive. Even if they're saying your name with dislike, at least you know you're you, that you exist.
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The love of Christ both wounds and heals, it fascinates and frightens, it kills and makes alive, it draws and repulses. There can be nothing more terrible or wonderful than to be stricken with love for Christ so deeply that the whole being goes out in a pained adoration of His person, an adoration that disturbs and disconcerts while it purges and satisfies and relaxes the deep inner heart.
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When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.
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When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}
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The sacred page is not meant to be the end, but only the means toward the end, which is knowing God Himself.
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This morning I looked at the books on my shelves and thought that they have no knowledge of my existence. They come to life because I open them and turn their pages, and yet they don't know that I am their reader.
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I dare hope that all the peoples who have lived through communism will understand that communism is to blame for the bitter pages of their history.
