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People really need what you have to give.” Father Tim pulled his knit cap over his ears. “Which is what?” “God,” said Dooley. “You give people God.”
“George Macdonald wrote this: ‘Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best. God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best and man will not take it.’
COINCIDENCE IS WHEN GOD CHOOSES TO REMAIN ANONYMOUS.
“Let’s thank God!” Indeed, it was pray—or bust wide open.
She often recited something from St. Francis, which I committed to memory, so that we might encourage one another. “‘Keep a clear eye toward life’s end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God’s Creature. What you are in His sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing you have received . . . but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice and courage.’ ”
Every saint has a past, the sixteenth-century poet had said, and every sinner has a future. And all because of what He did for love.
François Mauriac: “If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads but what he rereads. ”
