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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

Wendell Berry

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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Afraid Awake Beat Cover Head Hear Heart Lying Own Prayer
This, I thought, is what is meant by ‘thy will be done’ in the Lord’s Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it.
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Again Done Lord Meant Prayer Think Thought Thy Time Without
For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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For Free Grace Rest Time World
The 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.
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Call Each Gift God Honorable Idea Kind Old Our Preference Simply Vocation
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.
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Derive Economy Genuine Global Local Locality Measure National Neighbour Offer Security
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.
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Amy God Good Mean Possibility Prayer Same Suffer
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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Care Good Know Love Take Willing
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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Alone Belong God Know Nevertheless Seek Take True Truth Whose
The primary motive for good care and good use of the land-community is always going to be affection, which is too often lacking.
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Affection Always Care Community Go Good Lack Land Motive Often Primary Use
A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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Do Justice Longer Memory Sense Sterner We
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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Feel Forst Hand Like Man Night Pray Walk Way
We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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Comprehend Us What
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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Cherish Earth Foster Hope Legitimate Our Remain Renewal Survival
I’m a writer more than I am a talker.
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More Talker Writer
All right, every day ain’t going to be the best day of your life, don’t worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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All Best Day Every Go Life Open Possible Right Stick Worry
We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it.
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Care Condition Good Live Take World

For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.

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