[P]ain is a small price to pay for freedom from self-deception. — David Steindl-Rast
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Kathleen Norris
For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn’t know we needed and take us to places where we didn’t want to go.
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Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. — Wendell Berry
Evan Eisenberg
Without wildness, civilization could not survive. The converse does not hold. — Evan Eisenberg
Wendell Berry
Light can come into this world only as love, and love can enter only by suffering. — Wendell Berry
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies—nothing annoys them so much. — Oscar Wilde
Mary Oliver
Tell me what is it you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? — Mary Oliver
Frederick Douglass
Were I to be reduced again to the chains, I regard being the slave of a religious slaveholder the greatest calamity that could befall me. They are the worst, the basest, the meanest, the most cruel and cowardly of all others. — Frederick Douglass
Eugenia Price
Laughter at oneself is always proof that God has healed us in the touchy places. — Eugenia Price
Muriel Lester
War is as outmoded as cannibalism, chattel slavery, blood feuds, and dueling, an insult to God and humanity . . . and a daily crucifixion of Christ. — Muriel Lester