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Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.

Yann Martel

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.
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Communication Novelists Pages
I thought they were helping me. I was so full of trust in them that I felt grateful as they carried me in the air. Only when they threw me overboard did I begin to have doubts.
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Air Doubt Grateful
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe?
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Belief Believe Book Life
Why make dirty what is beautiful, spoil what is perfect? Love.
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Beautiful Beauty Dirty
It was as unbelievable as the moon catching fire.
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Catching Fire Moon
In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed.
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Broken Properly Taken Years
The presence of God is the finest of rewards.
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Finest God Presence Rewards
For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out.
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Beens City Evil People
Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey.
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Journey Saving Suffering
I was giving up. I would have given up – if a voice hadn’t made itself heard in my heart. The voice said “I will not die. I refuse it. I will make it through this nightmare.
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Giving Hard Heart Up Work
Zoo is an artificial territory, an approximation. Civilization is our natural territory.
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Civilization Territory Zoos
How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?
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Broken Spirit Long Water
I can well imagine an athiest’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!” – and the deathbed leap of faith.
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Deathbed Light Self White
In that, being famous was no different from being gay, or Jewish, or from a visible minority: you are who you are, and then people project onto you some notion they have.
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Different Minority Notion Project
I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo.
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Add Hearing Two Unexpected
How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.
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Invention Mother True Very

Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love – but sometimes it was so hard to love.

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