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“There are two occasions when the sacred beauty of Creation becomes dazzlingly apparent, and they occur together. One is when we feel our mortal insufficiency to the world, and the other is when we feel the world's mortal insufficiency to us.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.”
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“What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
“Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
“What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to become apparent to you once and for all. The most blinding illumination that strikes and perhaps radically changes your life will be so attenuated and obscured by doubts and dailiness that you may one day come to suspect the truth of that moment at all. The calling that seemed so clear will be lost in echoes of questionings and indecision; the church that seemed to save you will fester with egos, complacencies, banalities; the deepest love of your life will work itself like a thorn in your heart until all you can think of is plucking it out. Wisdom is accepting the truth of this. Courage is persisting with life in spite of it. And faith is finding yourself, in the deepest part of your soul, in the very heart of who you are, moved to praise it.”
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
― My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer
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