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" ‘It seems to ask so much of people. Why should they pray for me when they have tribulations of their own?’ ‘All the more reason to pray for you—it’s a healing exercise for us as well as for you."

"Thank you for the supernatural connections that prayer creates among us, for the ties it so strongly binds."

"A little short on breath, he escaped with his dog into the silent realm of ink and paper, and closed the door behind him. Books! Man’s best friend. Next to the dog, of course."

"He’d never thought he was a healer; he’d always felt the need of healing, himself."

“I wish you could have seen our little town sleeping at two in the morning—I was especially moved by the sight of the streetlamps glimmering as if under the spell of sober thought, and the silent mountains beyond.”