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Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To mar...more

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The figure in the icon is not meant to represent literally what Peter or John or any of the apostles looked like, or what Mary looked like, nor the ch...more

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The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only deny them their childhood, with its high creativity,...more

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We draw people to Christ not by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a ...more

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Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.

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In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the lovi...more

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People are afraid of knowledge that is not yet theirs.

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Truth is what is true, and it's not necessarily factual. Truth and fact are not the same thing. Truth does not contradict or deny facts, but it goes t...more

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I am slowly coming to understand with all my heart as well as my head that love is not a feeling. It is a person.

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Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word "Christian" would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christian...more

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This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying...more

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We're not peculiar.""Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been divorced? Basically becaus...more

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Nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

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Mr Jenkins. Unique, as every star in the sky is unique, every leaf on every tree, every snowflake, every farandola, every cherubim, unique: Named.

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Who makes you least confused?""Calvin" There was no hesitation here. "When I'm with Calvin, I don't mind being me""You mean he makes you more you, don...more