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[Hobbits] love peace and quiet and a good tilled earth.

I feel I need a holiday, a very long holiday, as I have told you before. Probably a permanent holida...

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A spoken language is a body, a living creature, whose physiognomy is verbal and whose visceral funct...

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The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (artist)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The pursuit of joy in God is not optional. It is not an “extra” that a person might grow into after ...

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John Piper (theologian)Desiring God: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the ton...

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When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and...

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Girls and women, in their new, particular unfolding, will only in passing imitate men's behavior and...

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Because the world is in a sick condition and we are all somehow infected, against our will, even if ...

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There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we ar...

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I just wanted to thank you' he says, his voice low.'A group of scientists told you that my genes wer...

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I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the wo...

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Wendell BerryAnother Turn of the Crank

As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the wo...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

What marriage offers - and what fidelity is meant to protect - is the possibility of moments when wh...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

A beam or pillar can be used to batter down a city wall, but it is no good for stopping up a little ...

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Life, death, preservation, loss, failure, success, poverty, riches, worthiness, unworthiness, slande...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Tell them about how you're never really a whole person if you remain silent, because there's always ...

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I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as t...

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Audre LordeSister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Grief seems to create losses within us that reach beyond our awareness--we feel as if we're missing ...

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The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Heaven means to be one with God.

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ConfuciusEssential Writings of Confucianism: The Analects of Confucius and the Mencius

Awareness ultimately has no boundaries. It exists in this world but endlessly goes beyond it. The wo...

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Deepak ChopraThe Soul of Leadership: Unlocking Your Potential for Greatness

To be great, be whole;Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.Be whole in everything. Pu...

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Fernando PessoaPoems of Fernando Pessoa