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The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
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Awhile
Bell
Mercy
Brief
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Somebody
Corner
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Rings
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That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.
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I eventually found that the soul is more than an immortal commodity to win and save. It is the repository of the inner divine, the truest part of us.
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We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the night.
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