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Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
furious pride,
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Creighton added 2mo ago
Well, but how deeply I regret any sadness you have suffered and how grateful I am in anticipation of any good you have enjoyed. That is to say, I pray for you. And there’s an intimacy in it. That’s the truth.
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Creighton added 2mo ago
I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true.
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Creighton added 2mo ago
There is an earned innocence, I believe, which is as much to be honored as the innocence of children. I have often wanted to preach about that. For all I know, I have preached about it. When the Lord says you must “become as one of these little ones,” I take Him to mean you must be stripped of all the accretions of smugness and pretense and trivial
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Creighton added 2mo ago
There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality. It makes no sense at all because it is the eternal breaking in on the temporal. So how could it subordinate itself to cause or consequence?
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Zach Kirshner added 3mo ago
I have never asked, but one thing I have learned in my life is what settled, habitual sadness looks like, and when I saw her I thought, Where have you come from, my dear child?
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Creighton added 2mo ago
There’s a pattern in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be perceived.
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Creighton added 2mo ago
Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set apart so that the holiness of time can be experienced.
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Creighton added 2mo ago
The truth is, as I stood there in the pulpit, looking down on the three of you, you looked to me like a handsome young family, and my evil old heart rose within me, the old covetise I have mentioned elsewhere came over me, and I felt the way I used to feel when the beauty of other lives was a misery and an offense to me. And I felt as if I were loo
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