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You indict me, no doubt, as an incurable romantic. I plead guilty without contest. I see no other explanation of what we are about. Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers, why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry, or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half of earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become. For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself--and it is our glory to see it so and thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb

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All man's love is vast and inconvenient.

Robert Farrar Capon, The Supper of the Lamb

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Things are beautiful in relation to other things, so the study of beauty is the study of relationships.

-Marcel Wanders

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Joy's trick is to supply Dry lips with what can cool and slake, Leaving them dumbstruck also with an ache Nothing can satisfy.

-Richard Wilbur, "Hamlen Brook"

She thought it strange and wonderful that she had been given all these to love. She thought it a blessing that she had loved them to the limit of her grief at parting with them, and that grief had only deepened and clarified her love. Since her first grief had brought her fully to birth and wakefulness in this world, an unstinting compassion had moved in her, like a live stream flowing deep underground, by which she knew herself and others and the world. It was her truest self, that stream always astir inside her that was at once pity and love, knowledge and faith, forgiveness, grief, and joy. It made her fearful, and it made her unafraid.

Fidelity, Wendell Berry

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The Shepherd laughed too. “I love doing preposterous things,” he replied. “Why, I don’t know anything more exhilarating and delightful than turning weakness into strength, and fear into faith, and that which has been marred into perfection."

Hannah Hurnard, Hinds' Feet on High Places

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So I would say that God is waiting. God is eager for us to have the experience of being seen, soothed and made safe and secure by him. But it will require us being willing to take the risk of allowing ourselves to look at him looking at us.

Curt Thompson

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Finally, as a gift, as a mercy, I remember to pray, “Thy will be done,” and then again I am free and can go to sleep.

Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry

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You have had this life and no other. You have had this life with this man and no other. What would it have been to have had a different life with a different man? You will never know. That makes the world forever a mystery, and you will just have to be content for it to be that way.

Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry

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Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn’t shirk it. Love, after all, “hopeth all things.” But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry

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You can’t give yourself over to love for somebody without giving yourself over to suffering.

Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry

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The chance you had is the life you’ve got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people’s lives, even about your children being gone, but you mustn’t wish for another life. You mustn’t want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: “Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.” I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.

Hannah Coulter, Wendell Berry

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While it is true that our identity is in Christ, that doesn’t mean that our family, our culture, or other aspects of our particular experience are irrelevant. Our identity in Christ isn’t something apart from our cultures and backgrounds but rather his transformation of them as he brings us to himself.