You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Frederick Buechner
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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. ✨ Frederick Buechner (2007). Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC, p.128, Theologischer Verlag Zürich
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What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vani … ▶
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Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth th … ▶

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