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It's more important to be in right relationship than it is to be right.

Parker J. Palmer

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There is a tradition that the church represents, without which we wouldn't have the church, that's all about diving deep beneath the surface of the culture and finding those timeless, eternal truths that the whole Christian enterprise is rooted in. And one of those is that you don't come to God at 180 miles an hour.
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When someone says 'I'm so disillusioned', I say 'Congratulations! You've lost another illusion.'
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