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The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly.

Wendell Berry

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Wendell Berry
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: August 5
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Henry County
Kentucky
Wendell Berry
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The Christian gospel is a summons to peace, calling for justice beyond anger, mercy beyond justice, forgiveness beyond mercy, love beyond forgiveness.
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We cannot know the whole truth, which belongs to God alone, but our task nevertheless is to seek to know what is true.
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I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief.... For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.
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I could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it's being ruined is hard.
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