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"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
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"It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God - but to create him."
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"Heaven means to be one with God."
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"I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not."
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"Exceeds man's might: that dwells with the gods above."
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"Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."
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"God is not an Almighty Being watching over life on earth. God is the Event Horizon of Human Consciousness."
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"Baptists are very strong believers that the civil magistrate is ordained by God to punish those who do evil."
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"Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue."
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"Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods."
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"Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever."
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"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."
Love
"The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts."
History
"Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god."
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"We make too much of that long groan which underlines the past."
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"The personal vocabulary, the individual melody whose metre is one's biography, joins in that sound, with any luck, and the body moves like a walking, a waking island."
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"A culture, we all know, is made by its cities."
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"The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself."
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"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves."
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"This is Port of Spain to me, a city ideal in its commercial and human proportions, where a citizen is a walker and not a pedestrian, and this is how Athens may have been before it became a cultural echo."
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"Because that is what such a city is, in the New World, a writer's heaven."
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