“Just let me do what you put me here to, Let me be what you want me to be, And I hope it'll cheer you, I'm listening and I think I can hear you.” - I Think I Can Hear You by Carole King

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"Life consists in learning to live on one’s own, spontaneous, freewheeling: to do this one must recognize what is one’s own—be familiar and at home with oneself. This means basically learning who one is, and learning what one has to offer to the contemporary world, and then learning how to make that offering valid."--Thomas Merton
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“If we want to be spiritual, then, let us first of all live our lives. Let us not fear the responsibilities and the inevitable distractions of the work appointed for us by the will of God. Let us embrace reality and thus find ourselves immersed in the life-giving will and wisdom of God which surrounds us everywhere. “ - from Thoughts in Solitude by Thomas Merton
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. 
Soren Kierkegaard  
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Soren Kierkegaard