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“The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.”
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“The conservative has little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of passions. These are the wreckers of outworn empires.”
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“It’s because of you that I can go to any church and take whatever the service has to offer, all of it up for interpretation except kindness.”
― Dear Mr. You
― Dear Mr. You
“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia”
― Ptolemy's Almagest
― Ptolemy's Almagest
“And the Word that had most recently come from the mouth of God was, “This is my beloved in whom I am well pleased.” Identity. It’s always God’s first move. Before we do anything wrong and before we do anything right, God has named and claimed us as God’s own. But almost immediately, other things try to tell us who we are and to whom we belong: capitalism, the weight-loss industrial complex, our parents, kids at school—they all have a go at telling us who we are. But only God can do that. Everything else is temptation.”
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
― Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint
High Places Expeditions
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— last activity Dec 13, 2010 07:17AM
Our High Places book club, open to HPCC members and interested others in the Oak Ridge, Tennessee area. We strive to meet monthly, sometimes over wine ...more
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