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[Luke, holding stormtrooper helmet. ] Alas, poor stormtrooper, I knew ye not,<br> yet have I taken both uniform and life<br> From thee. What manner of a man wert thou?<br> A man of inf'nite jest or cruelty?<br> A man with helpmate and with children too?<br> A man who hath his Empire serv'd with pride?<br> A man, perhaps, who wish'd for perfect peace?<br> What'er thou wert, goodman, thy pardon grant<br> Unto the one who took thy place: e'en me.

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The only obligation I recognize is to say what I believe to be true [ ] and to say it with kindness. I believe that is how a Christian conversation should proceed.

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Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

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We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music has come out of it, literature has come out of it. We should think of our humanity as a privilege.

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Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing.

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He [Christ] even restored the severed ear of the soldier who came to arrest Him - a fact that allows us to hope the resurrection will reflect a considerable attention to detail.

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I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made in good faith by one human being to another. I want to believe there are geniuses scheming to astonish the rest of us, just for the pleasure of it.

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