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If I had had this experience earlier in life, I would have been much wiser, much more compassionate. I really didn't understand what it was that made ...more

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This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognized for what i...more

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it's hard to find time to think about Kansas.

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I'll pray that you grow up a brave man in a brave country. I will pray you find a way to be useful.I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.

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The parents of these young soldiers would come to me and ask how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have t...more

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Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

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I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Wel...more

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There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embrac...more

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I experience religious dread whenever I find myself thinking that I know the limits of God’s grace, since I am utterly certain it exceeds any imaginat...more