It is our capacity to relax with not knowing, not figuring everything out, with not being at all sure about who we are – or who anyone else is either.
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“At night you lie on your soft sleeping bag listening to the trees and wind talking to the night while the stars spin their slow but constant dervish.”
― Walking Man: The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher
― Walking Man: The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher
“(In Catholic universities, a doctorate in theology is not referred to as a PhD but as an STD, Doctor of Sacred Theology. It’s an unfortunate name for a degree. It must be hard for someone’s mother to say, “I’m so proud of my little boy. He went to seminary and got an STD.”)”
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
― Chasing Francis: A Pilgrim’s Tale
“Is maith an scáthán súil charad!” Juniper replied ruefully. “A friend’s eye is a good mirror!”
― Dies the Fire
― Dies the Fire
“When you spend time on your own away from society you find, upon your return, much of the human-created world appears tawdry and low class, common—like a cheap trinket, or worse.”
― Walking Man: The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher
― Walking Man: The Secret Life of Colin Fletcher
“I’m not quite sure what it means to “believe in Jesus” without believing in the Jesus way.)”
― A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
― A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
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