"Faith takes root in the insignificant."

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Source : Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.77, Open Road Media

Nancy Willard

#Faith Quotes #Roots Quotes #Insignificant Quotes

“Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.”
“My chief job is to constantly stir or rekindle the curiosity of people that gets driven out by bureaucracy and formal schooling systems.”
“The breath must be enticed or cajoled, like catching a horse in a field, not by chasing after it, but by standing still with an apple in oneâ€™s hand.”
“The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach”
“You're going to spend more time with yourself than with anyone else in your life. You want to spend that whole time fighting who you are?”
“Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.”
“True motherhood is the noblest call of the world, and we look with sorrow upon the practice here in our own United States of limiting families, a tendency creeping into our own Church.”
“All facts prove that the Saenuri Party is a group of traitors who stoop to any infamy to realize its ambition to seize power.”

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