Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys. - H. Richard Niebuhr

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Some period of time later you look up and say, "That concern was right on the mark; it happened exactly as I thought it would. " So that's been really helpful to recognize.

H. Richard Niebuhr

Pilgrims are poets who create by taking journeys.

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The great Christian revolutions came not by the discovery of something that was not known before. They happen when someone takes radically something that was always there.

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Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

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A God without wrath brought human beings without sin into a kingdom without judgment through ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

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Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

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The way to the organic, active peace of brotherhood leads through the hearts of peacemakers who will knit together, with patience and self-sacrifice, the shorn and tangled fibers of human aspirations, faith, and hopes, who will transcend the fears and dangers of an adventure of trust. The road to unity is the road of repentance.

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