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“Why do insurance companies, when they want to describe an act of God, invariably pick on something which sounds much more like an act of the Devil? One would think that God was exclusively concerned in making hurricanes, smallpox, thunderbolts, and dry rot. They seem to forget that He also manufactures rainbows, apple-blossom, and Siamese kittens. However, that is, perhaps, a diversion.”
― Sunlight on the Lawn
― Sunlight on the Lawn
“I've come to think that's what heaven is- a place in the memory of others where our best selves live on.”
― Orphan Train
― Orphan Train
“He [God] chooses not to intervene in the world. Why not? Because he figures he's done enough and the rest is up to us? Or he wouldn't know where to begin? Or because he's in awe of his own miracle? That's how I picture him, his mouth slightly agape, his eyes wide in disbelief.”
― The Man in the Window
― The Man in the Window
“This was the result of one of the cruelest paradoxes of the Nazis' policy of 'Judenrein.' The Nazis wanted Jews to leave and readily allowed Jews to leave. But it took money to go someplace, and Hitler's anti-Jewish laws and policies had stripped virtually all Jewish adults of their wealth and means of earning a living.”
― 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
― 50 Children: One Ordinary American Couple's Extraordinary Rescue Mission into the Heart of Nazi Germany
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