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When it comes to religion today, we tend to be long on butterflies and short on cocoons. Somehow we're going to have to relearn that the deep things of God don't come suddenly.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Going
Somehow
Long
Tend
Things
Short
Deep
Relearn
Religion
Cocoons
Comes
Butterflies
Today
Butterfly
Come
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