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But compassion takes work, and we were young.
running away makes you a prey.
On the Feast of Adam and All Primates, we affirm our Primate ancestry — an affirmation that has brought down wrath upon us from those who arrogantly persist in evolutionary denial. But we affirm, also, the Divine agency that has caused us to be created in the way that we were, and this has enraged those scientific fools who say in their hearts, “There is no God.” These claim to prove the non-existence of God because they cannot put Him in a test tube and weigh and measure Him. But God is pure Spirit; so how can anyone reason that the failure to measure the Immeasurable proves its
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He created us through the long and complex process of Natural and Sexual Selection, which is none other than His ingenious device for instilling humility in Man.
We have betrayed the trust of the Animals, and defiled our sacred task of stewardship. God’s commandment to “replenish the Earth” did not mean we should fill it to overflowing with ourselves, thus wiping out everything else.
In any case, time is not a thing that passes, said Pilar: it’s a sea on which you float.
How old will I be, thought Toby, before I can be that calm?
foisting your mental junk on others was frowned on.
we must accept and wear the label of God’s Fools gladly, for in relation to God we are all fools, no matter how wise we may think we are.
reading someone else’s secret words does give you power over them.
Adam One said that when you loved a person, that love might not always get returned the way you wanted, but it was a good thing anyway because love went out all around you like an energy wave,
And Doves, though harmless to us, are extremely aggressive to other Doves: a male will harass and kill a less dominant male if occasion offers. The Spirit of God is sometimes pictured as a Dove, which simply informs us that this Spirit is not always peaceful: it has a ferocious side to it as well.
“Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” That is the point: not seen. We cannot know God by reason and measurement; indeed, excess reason and measurement lead to doubt.
We’re using up the Earth. It’s almost gone.
Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger,
Nobody likes it, thought Toby — being a body, a thing. Nobody wants to be limited in that way.
you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she’d be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death’s a sure-fire method for stopping time.
Turn off your mind chatter.
Death always comes without knocking.
Just remember, dear Friends: What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.
no luck was dumb because luck was just another name for miracle.
The last mile is the longest mile —
