For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
WENDELL BERRYThe old and honorable idea of ‘vocation’ is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
More Wendell Berry Quotes
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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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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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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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If we can’t afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we’re in an insurmountable mess.
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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.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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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.
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The only time I’ve been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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I’ve had a good life, and was born to and among people I’ve admired and loved.
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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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