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In situations like this, it is controlled chaos. I wish I had the code to unlock Michael’s mind. But no such code exists. All I can bring to the conversation are my heart and my trust that God wants me in the midst of this chaos. The imprisoned are the poorest of the poor. If the heart of God is to be found anywhere, it is to be found in the hole.
Gary Smith • Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
humanity’s most intractable disagreements.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
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Michael imagines the heaven in which they reside, a heaven of justice, where peace reigns eternal.
JJ Bola • The Selfless Act of Breathing: A Novel
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As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time. I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness.
Sailors have an expression about the weather:
E.B. White • E.B. White’s Beautiful Letter to a Man Who Had Lost Faith in Humanity
be true, because there is only one God. God cannot possibly be divided in this way. I have it! I am having my hell now. When I die, I shall have my heaven. The master’s having his heaven now. When he dies, he will have his hell.” The next day, chopping cotton beneath the torrid skies, the slave said to his mate: I got shoes, You got shoes, All God’
... See moreHoward Thurman • Jesus and the Disinherited
‘On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.’