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“You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.”
― Charles Portis, True Grit

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Seeker's ABC

“Divine love is incessantly restless until it turns all woundedness into health, all deformity into beauty, all embarrassment into laughter. In biblical faith, brokenness is never celebrated as an end in itself.”
― Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

“The kinship of God won't come unless we shake things up- to bark up the wrong tree, amd to propose something new.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“We want to live our lives "out loud"- for all the world to see- not with the volume cracked high but with our lives speaking for themselves.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“Our sense of God always beckons us us to grow, to reimagine something wildly more breathtaking than where our imagination generally takes us.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“We live admits a universe soaked in grave that invites us to savor it.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“We settle for the look of holiness rather than the likes of it.”
― Gregory Boyle, Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“Throughly worldly people never understand even the world; they rely altogether on a few cynical maxims which are not true”
― G.K. Chesterton

“We are called to participate in the very acting out of the life of God.”
― Michael Himes

“Kinship– not serving the other, but being one with the other. Jesus was not “a man for others”; he was one with them. There is a world of difference in that.”
― Gregory Boyle, Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion

“To overlook God's presence is not simply to be irreligious: it is a kind of insanity, like overlooking anything else that is actually there.”
― Frank Sheed, Theology and Sanity