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This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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Those who say Islam is a warlike religion must ask if Christianity has been as well.
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The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.
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I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.
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A significant part of the pleasure of eating is in one’s accurate consciousness of the lives and the world from which food comes.
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To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival.
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We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.
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It is, of course, one of the miracles of science that the germs that used to be in our food have been replaced by poisons.
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There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.
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Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
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You may say that I am just another outdated old man complaining about progress and the changes of time. But, you see, I have well considered that possibility myself, and am prepared o submit to correction by anybody who cares about a community, who can show me how the world is improved by that community's dying.
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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and gadgets that we have become addicted to.
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There's a world of difference . . . between that information to which we now presumably have access by way of computers, libraries, and the rest of it, great stockpiles of data, and the knowledge that people have in their bones by which they do good work and live good lives.
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The earth is what we all have in common.
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Specialization is the great evil of civilization.
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Geese appear high over us, / pass, and the sky closes. Abandon, / as in love or sleep, holds them to their way, clear / in the ancient faith: what we need / is here. And we pray, not / for new earth or heaven, but to be / quiet in heart, and in eye, / clear. What we need is here.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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