Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

Ann Patchett
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  1. The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious. - Fulton J. Sheen

  2. God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble... - Bono

  3. While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. - Francis Of Assisi

  4. For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non- Catholic), 3:16 - John Apostle

  5. To have understanding is not to be religious - Sunday Adelaja

More Quotes By Ann Patchett
  1. He realized now he was only just beginning to see the full extent to which it was his destiny to follow, to walk blindly into fates he could never understand. In fate there was reward, in turning over one's heart to God there was a...

  2. For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same...

  3. Hope is a horrible thing, you know. I don't know who decided to package hope as a virtue because it's not. It's a plague. Hope is like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and somebody just keeps pulling it and pulling it.

  4. Hope is a horrible thing, you know. It's a plague. It's like walking around with a fishhook in your mouth and someone just keep pulling it and pulling it." S T A T E OF WONDER

  5. Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

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