Wendell Berry on devotion
Wendell Berry53 quotes“These are people who are capable of devotion, public devotion, to justice. They meant what they said and every day that passes, they mean it more.”
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry We’re all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I’m complicit in the things that I’m trying to oppose.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry If conservationists will attempt to resume responsibility for their need to eat, they will be led back fairly directly to all their previous concerns for the welfare of nature.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled by people who, by principle, have no local commitment.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry Whether we or 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 BerryWendell Berry The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry It means that your will and God’s will may not be the same. It means there’s a good possibility that you won’t get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry We have to regard them as gifts because we couldn’t make them. We have to regard them as good gifts because we couldn’t live without them.
Wendell BerryWendell Berry Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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When one is consumed by the sorrows of life, three things give him relief: offspring, a wife, and the company of the Lord’s devotees.
ChanakyaChanakya I’ll never get tired of asking god to guide me.
Dau VoireDau Voire Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
Milton FriedmanMilton Friedman Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
ZoroasterZoroaster My entire theology can be condensed into four words, ‘JESUS DIED FOR ME’.
Charles SpurgeonCharles Spurgeon Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.
Swami VivekanandaSwami Vivekananda I have devoted myself to the Rockets. –Travis Scott
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