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"You'd be surprised, Theo." she said, leaning back in her shawl-shaped chair, "what small, everyday things can lift us out of despair. But nobody can do it for you. You're the one who has to watch for the open door."
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"Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us."
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"Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning."
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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
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"What a thrilling future for those of us who know that some day we will populate the kingdom of God."
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"There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well."
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"There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled."
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"This should be the motto of every follower of Jesus Christ. Never stop praying no matter now dark and hopeless it may seem."
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"Vision is success in the future."
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"History is going somewhere. And we know full well that He who does all things well will bring beauty from the ashes of world chaos. A new world is being born. A new social order will emerge when Christ comes back. A fabulous future is on the way."
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"We will be a mighty nation, if we build each other."
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"Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life."
Life


"Taking on challenging projects is the way that one grows and extends one's range as a writer, one's technical command, so I consider the time well-spent."
Time


"Is it better to throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name?"
Courage


"I like the idea of living in a city - any city, especially a strange one - like the thought of traffic and crowds, of working in a bookstore, waiting tables in a coffee shop, who knew what kind of odd, solitary life I might slip into? Meals alone, waling the dogs in the evenings; and nobody knowing who I was."
Solitude


"But when she was annoyed with me, she had a cold way of saying "Apparently in answer to almost anything I said, making me feel stupid. "Um, I can't find the can opener. "Apparently. "There's going to be a lunar eclipse tonight. "Apparently. "Look, sparks are coming out of the wall socket. "Apparently."
Communication


"To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone."
Time


"Richard Papen: As it happened, I knew Gartrell. He was a bad painter and a vicious gossip, with a vocabulary composed almost entirely of obscenities, gutteral verbs, and the world "postmodernist."
Criticism


"I'm not sure whay I've been drawn to this subject, except that murder is a subject that has always drawn people for as long as people have been telling stories."
People


"It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens."
Work


"He did touch people's lives, the lives of strangers, in an entirely unanticipated way. It was they who really mourned him - or what they thought was him - with a grief that was no less sharp for not being intimate with its object."
Mourning
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