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Jayber Crow (2000)
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The mercy of the world is you don't know what's going to happen.
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Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
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And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. There was no escape. The Spirit that made it was in it, shaping it and reshaping it, sometimes lying at rest, sometimes standing up and shaking itself, like a muddy horse, and letting the pieces fly.
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They learned to have a very high opinion of God and a very low opinion of His works—although they could tell you that this world had been made by God Himself. What they didn't see was that it is beautiful, and that some of the greatest beauties are the briefest.
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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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Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
Wendell Berry
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August 5, 1934
(age 85)
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