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Silence. There were all kinds of silences: the open, waiting silence of Meeting; the warm silence of home and family where words were unnecessary; the bird-and flower-filled silence of an empty garden.
“The world will never starve for want of wonders; but only for want of wonder.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
“We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“Her heart was a river that carried her to the sea.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
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