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If ‘ecstasy’ meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.

Abraham Verghese

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Pray tell us, what’s your favorite number?
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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Backward Forward Inspire Life Live Understand
…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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Action Guilt Lead Rarely Right Righteous
The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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Crookedness Enough Serpent Slide Snake
We know the average American physician interrupts their patient in 14 seconds.
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If you keep saying your slippers aren’t yours, then you’ll die searching, you’ll die bitter, always feeling you were promised more.
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Always Bitter Feeding Keep Promise Saying Searching Slipper
Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.
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Alive Beautiful Imagination Keeping Literature Time World
The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.
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Associate Baptism Elaborate Inauguration Marriage President Ritual
Wasn’t that the definition of home? Not where you are from, but where you are wanted
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Believe Deepen Heal Ministering Will Wound Woundedness
God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by–by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don’t think God cares what doctrine we embrace.
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Care God Human Being Judge Judging Relieve Suffering Thinking
Why settle for ‘Three Blind Mice’ when you can can play the ‘Gloria’? No, not Bach’s ‘Gloria.’ Yours! Your ‘Gloria’ lives within you.
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Bach Blind Gloria Live Mice Play Settle Three Yours
To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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Confidence Expect Around First Glance More Seductive Self
At times, with today’s advances in technology, medicine in rural America looks very like it does in America’s cities, but the variety of practices is enormous.
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Advance Medicine Technology Time Today Variety
We aren’t even fighting disease. Its poverty. Money for food, medicines… that helps.
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Disease Fighting Food Help Medicine Money Poverty
I joke, but I only half joke, that if you come to one of our hospitals missing a limb, no one will believe you till they get a CAT scan, MRI, or orthopedic consult.
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Believe Cat Hospital Inspiration Joke Limb Missing Motivation Scan

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