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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.

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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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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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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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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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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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The ecosystems, the ecosphere, those are good gifts.
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The atmosphere, the earth, the water and the water cycle – those things are good gifts.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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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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My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Belief Condition Gift Life Our World
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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A longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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The two great aims of industrialism – replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy – seem close to fulfillment.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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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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