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Walter Wangerin

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So go back to the books. They will comfort you and cheer you. If you earnestly work with them, neither sorrow nor anxiety nor distress nor suffering need trouble your mind any more, no, not evermore.
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We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted – and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.
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So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is Good tidings of great joy for all people. That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.
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Mirrors that hide nothing hurt me. But this is the hurt of purging and precious renewal - and these are the mirrors of dangerous grace.
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Sorrow spoken lends a little courage to the speaker.
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Unless you learn to play a duet in the same key, to the same rhythm, a slow process of disengagement will wedge you apart, first secretly, psychologically, and then openly and miserably.
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God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it?
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Fantasy deals with the immeasurable while science-fiction deals with the measurable.
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