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"In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints."
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"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
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"It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle."

"Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage."

"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."

"Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death."

"You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by."

"The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you."

"In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints."
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