"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."

-- Penelope Lively

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“My brain begins to work stuff out, but then kinda half way through, it starts wandering off and it's like ahh, unicorns.”
“I cannot think on the one without quickly being encircled by the splendor of the three; nor can I discern the three without being straightway carried back to the one.”
“The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me. I am filled with wonder when I consider the immeasurable contrasts between the two lives which it connects. It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old.”
“The exercise of patience involves a continual practice of the presence of God, for we may be called upon at any moment for an almost heroic display of good temper. And it is a short road to unselfishness, for nothing is left to self. All that seems to belong most intimately to self, to be self's private property, such as time, home, and rest, are invaded by these continual trials of patience.”
“God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.”

Source : Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan
“There isn't a theologian in the world who can argue with me on this. God has no gender. If that's the case, then everything needs to be rewritten now, right now.”
“When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.”
“There's no original evil left in the world. Everyone's just recycling pain. (257)”

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