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"The worst of me is the raw material from which God molds the best of me."
"None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But, ... there is no such thing as "too late" in life."
"You have to work on it. You have to meditate on God's Word, which itself will change you and transform you into the image and character of God."
"The splendid thingabout falling apartsilently...is thatyou can start overas many timesas you like."
"The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again."
"Don't judge yourself by your past, you no longer live there."
"What I would be quite wise to remember is that 'pieces' are not the end of what was, but the beginning of what is to be."
"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."
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"The Word no longer belonged to Man because they believed it did not. Man saw the gods alone as Creators and forgot that there had ever been any other way."
"People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism."
"The trouble with psychics is that they convince you that you get this future no matter what you do. It is as though you can cheat the universe out of your experiences, that you need only tweak something here or there to live happily ever after. It allows for spiritual sloth in the certainty of providence."
"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."
"Some points in time cannot flow. Think of those big-ticket moments, the ones you could still recite from fifth grade: your 1492 and Civil Wars, the Titanic and presidential assassinations. These are icebergs, solid and immense, forcing incalculable eddies to swirl around them."
"Owing to thousands of generations of over-justification bred into them to keep from the maddening awareness of the true composition of the world, people had a tendency to give themselves the freedom to do whatever Shane told them, as long as it did not conflict too much with their self-preservation."
"I don't much care for all this talk of God washing away all my dirt. I like a bit of grit around the edges. It gives me character and does a passable job of faking depth, from a distance."
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