A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

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Grief is the price we pay for love. – Queen Elizabeth II

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If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your heard even, you experience them fully and completely.

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There is no power outside of man. Man has created God out of fear. So the problem is fear and not God.

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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

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There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God. ― John Calvin

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Tonight, no matter what you're going through... backtrack and remember all the places where God has been so faithful before in your life. And know. Know with assurance. And boldness. And confidence. He is the same faithful God.

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Have faith in God; God has faith in you. -Edwin Louis Cole

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I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

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No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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