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“Theoretically, there is always a better place for a person to live, better work to do, a better spouse to wed, better friends to have. But then this person must meet herself coming back: Theoretically, there always is a better inhabitant of this place, a better member of this community, a better worker, spouse, and friend than she is. This surely describes one of the circles of Hell, and who hasn’t traveled around it a time or two?”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“She went her way, then, and left me standing there still as a stone, all filled to running over with the force of what she had put into my mind. It was the thought of Heaven. I thought an unimaginable thought of something I could almost imagine, of a sound I could not imagine but could almost hear: the outcry when a soul shakes off death at last and comes into Heaven. I don’t speak of this because I “know” it. What I know is that shout of limitless joy, love unbound at last, our only native tongue.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“Just as a good man would not coerce the love of his wife, God does not coerce the love of His human creatures, not for Himself or for the world or for one another. To allow that love to exist fully and freely, He must allow it not to exist at all. His love is suffering. It is our freedom and His sorrow. To love the world as much even as I could love it would be suffering also, for I would fail. And yet all the good I know is in this, that a man might so love this world that it would break his heart.”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
“Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flew, and is caught indoors, and flutters at the window panes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.
But sometimes a prayer comes that you have not thought to pray. Yet suddenly there it is, and you pray it. Sometimes you just trustfully and easily pass into the other world of sleep. Sometimes the bird finds that what looks like an opening, is an opening, and it flies away. Sometimes the shut door opens, and you go through it into the same world as before, in which you belong as you did not before.”
― Jayber Crow
But sometimes a prayer comes that you have not thought to pray. Yet suddenly there it is, and you pray it. Sometimes you just trustfully and easily pass into the other world of sleep. Sometimes the bird finds that what looks like an opening, is an opening, and it flies away. Sometimes the shut door opens, and you go through it into the same world as before, in which you belong as you did not before.”
― Jayber Crow
“Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door. But sometimes a prayer comes that you have not thought to pray, yet suddenly there it is and you pray it. Sometimes you just trustfully and easily pass into the other world of sleep. Sometimes the bird finds that what looks like an opening is an opening, and it flies away. Sometimes the shut door opens and you go through it into the same world you were in before, in which you belong as you did not before. If”
― Jayber Crow
― Jayber Crow
Jacob’s 2025 Year in Books
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123 friends
777 books
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169 books
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1,165 books
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45 books
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488 books
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32 books
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128 books
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