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"Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..."As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness."

"... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection."

"Ah! There is nothing like staying at home, for real comfort."

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire."

"It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love."

"Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God."

"I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it."

"Think of the patience God has had for you and let it resonate to others. If you want a more patient world, let patience be your motto"

"The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays."

"Then he just knelt in the ashes. He raised his face to the paling day. Are you there? he whispered. Will I see you at the last? Have you a neck by which to throttle you? Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God, he whispered, Oh God."

"Where I will find peace other than in oblivion?"

"The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself."

"I perceive God everywhere in His works. I sense Him in me; I see Him all around me."

"Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them"

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"Before I could turn to look up, a voice boomed from the heavens: "What the heck is going on down there?"

"My faith is big enough to accept all of God's wonders."

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful."