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“You have what we in France call ‘good time teeth,’” she said. “Why on earth would you want to change them?” “Um, because I can floss with the sash to my bathrobe?”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

“The iPhone 2 led to the 3, but I didn’t get the 4 or 5 because I’m holding out for the 7, which, I’ve heard on good authority, can also be used as a Taser. This will mean I’ll have just one less thing to carry around.”
― David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

“This is the foundation of all sin: the lie that God is untrustworthy, the lie that God is not altogether loving and that he doesn't have our best interests in mind.”
― Gregory A. Boyd, Is God to Blame?: Beyond Pat Answers to the Problem of Suffering

“This is the greatest challenge of faith, says Polish, “to live with a God we cannot fully understand, whose actions we explain at our own peril.”
― James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

“Every state of life, every decision, includes some pain that must be accepted if you are to enter fully into those decisions, and into new life. “All symphonies remain unfinished,” said Karl Rahner. There is no perfect decision, perfect outcome, or perfect life. Embracing imperfection helps us relax into reality. When we accept that all choices are conditional, limited, and imperfect, our lives become, paradoxically, more satisfying, joyful, and peaceful.”
― James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

“Great works are often quiet works.”
― James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

“All work has dignity. No job, when done freely, is ignoble.”
― James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

“Without the Jesuits you wouldn’t be enjoying your gin and tonic.”
― James Martin, The Jesuit Guide to (Almost) Everything: A Spirituality for Real Life

“Believing takes practice.”
― Madeline L'Engle

“To not try, to give up on the possibility that we can make a difference, can make the difference, is to give up on our past, on our complicated, difficult, but victorious past. Donald Trump is not our final, or ultimate, problem. The problem is, instead, allowing hopelessness to steal our joyful triumph before we work hard enough to achieve it.”
― Michael Eric Dyson, Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America

“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud,if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair, if they were not cherished by our virtues.”
― William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well