"Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die ...
~ Frederick Buechner ~












And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ...
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