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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.

Abraham Verghese

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The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.
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No blade can puncture the human heart like the well-chosen words of a spiteful son.
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