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"In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own."

"What if part of God's message to the world was you, the true and real you?"

"God uses imperfect people for impossible tasks."

"Your daily actions should be productive."

"Your calling is buried in your background and life experience."
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"You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy."

"The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise."

"I went for years not finishing anything. Because of course when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out."

"I guess the thing that I'm most proud of is that I kept on writing poetry. I understand that poetry is sort of the source of everything I do. It's the source of my creativity."

"Someday every woman will have orgasms- like every family has color TV- and we can all get on with the business of life."

"Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world."

"If every day I dare to remember that I am here on loan that this house this hillside these minutes are all leased to me not given I will never despair."
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