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

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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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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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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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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far:
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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 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 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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The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
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For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
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We cannot comprehend what comprehends us.
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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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For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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Why should conservationists have a positive interest in… farming? There are lots of reasons, but the plainest is: Conservationists eat.
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we ‘know’ that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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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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