"Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe."

-- Frederick Buechner

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“This is the face of our political class: arrogant, authoritarian, and on the level of some banana republic south of the border. Welcome to the New America, where leader-worship has taken the place of politics, Team Red and Team Blue battle it out to see who gets to be El Supremo for the next four years, and politics resembles a prolonged soccer game.”
“When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.”
“What good would politics be, if it didnâ€™t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.”
“My father passed away a couple of years ago, but he was very old. He was almost a 100 years old. And, you know, he had a very good life. He came to America and he had a good life.”
“A faith that is afraid of other people is not faith at all.”
“Siren Servers are narcissists; blind to where value comes from, including the web of global interdependence that is at the core of their own value.”
“There are worse words than cuss-words, there are words that hurt.”

Source : Tillie Olsen (2013). “Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works”, p.31, U of Nebraska Press
“If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred.”

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