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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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"The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence."

"Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together."

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

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
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"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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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