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    A Christian marriage is [not] one with no problems or even a marriage with fewer problems. (It may well mean more problems.) But it does mean a life in which two people are able to accept each other and love each other in the midst of problems and fears. It means a marriage in which selfish people can accept selfish people without constantly trying to change them -- and even accept themselves, because they realize personally that they have been accepted by Christ.

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    A forest is mystery but the desert is truth. Life pared to the bone.

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    All I have to tell you about is what I have heard and seen of Jesus, how He is helping me find freedom, to occasionally love other people, and even accept myself with all my mixed motives.

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    A spiritual person is also in touch with his or her own reality, feelings and thoughts, and the reality of the people around him or her, not projecting on them.

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    Beneath all of these addictions is this disease, this control disease which is the mark of our society.

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    But keep characters in propinquity long enough and a story will always develop a plot.

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    Feelings are like a color chart that God has given us.

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    I am deeply a part of the problem for which Christ died.

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    I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

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    I am six feet tall. I am not supposed to be afraid.

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    If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

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    I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

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    I have learned to like myself for the first time and to have some serenity.

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    I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God.

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    Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.

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    I remember when I was a little boy my father didn't love me; he couldn't. He loved my older brother but he couldn't love me somehow, at least not in a way I could understand it.

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    I've seen batting all over the world. And in other countries too

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    I was taught that pain is bad.

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    I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

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    Memories must enter the bloodstream, must churn awhile through the heart's mill, must be crushed and polished, be nearly forgotten or cling like burs to other stories before they spill forth in purple patterns, shapes of small bones and worm rot, shapes of clouds and the spaces between leaves.

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    My only hope to receive love is to let you see who I am, then I may believe you.

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    No gentleman ever discusses any relationship with a lady.

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    Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

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    Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life.

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    Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease

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    The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can't see its symptoms in myself.

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    There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart

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    The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person's soul until you find a crack, and then gently pour your love into that crack.

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    The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

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    The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.

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    We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have

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    We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world

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    We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

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    And he loves to read. He loves the whisper of the pages and the way his fingertips catch on rough paper, the pour of the words up from the leaves, through soft light, into his eyes, the mute voice in his ears.

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    Beyond the stars you see are other stars, stars beyond stars,' she told him, 'and all are dreams, like shoals of fish in the oceans of the night.

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    He went to sleep as soon as they'd gone, waking in the middle of the night and walking outside into a sky whose stars hung so low he felt he strolled among them and he could see indeed, so clear the air, the very flames of their inner workings.

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    In trying to commit my life to finding and participating in some of the purposes of Christ, as I can determine them, my energies and abilities are gradually being focused and are working together.

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    It may seem an easy task to disregard a secret but secrets are like splinters beneath the flesh, the infection spreads and spreads and then the limb turns gangrenous and must be sawn away, all for the sake of a sliver of wood.

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    Our tremendous drive for social acceptance and toward conformity in our time is causing us to train our children to be a generation of young liars who do not even realise they are lying. We train our children to be subtly dishonest almost from the crib. "Shh... don't cry in front of all these people.

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    Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.

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    The sky is the sea glittering with minnows caught in the nets of the rain, a flute at dusk is a lover's tongue in the ear, an eye is a talon, a cinder, a star.

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    We never look at the grass, though it is ubiquitous. If it's left alone to shake its hair loose it will produce tiny tassels and flowers, miniature and beautiful, that I'd never noticed before. Beauty is so often size and commotion for us, and fancy labels, that the subterfuge of loveliness all around us goes unseen.