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• When Catherine told me about this (tragedy nearby), I could only say, shocked, "Dear God, that family needs grace." She replied firmly, "That family needs casseroles," and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this _is_ grace.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Night, Years, Grace

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• I’m not at peace anymore. I just want him like I used to in the old days. I want to be eating sandwiches with him. I want to be drinking with him in a bar. I’m tired and I don’t want anymore pain. I want Maurice. I want ordinary corrupt human love. Dear God, you know I want to want Your pain, but I don’t want it now. Take it away for a while and give it me another time.

  Graham Greene

  Pain, Drinking, Tired

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• You literally can shoot someone in the face on television and a 7-year-old can watch it. But you can't show the slight of a man's hip, because dear God, someone might think of sex. And while we all hope our kids grow up to have sex, we do not hope they grow up to shoot someone in the face.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Sex, Growing Up, Kids

  "Shonda Rhimes knows when and how ‘Scandal’ ends. She’s just not telling". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. September 24, 2015.

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• There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.

  Ezra Cornell

  Children, Giving, Wife

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• My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Children, Believe, Clergy

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• I myself will perhaps cry out with all the rest, looking at the mother embracing her child's tormentor: 'Just art thou, O Lord!' but I do not want to cry out with them. While there's still time, I hasten to defend myself against it, and therefore I absolutely renounce all higher harmony. It is not worth one little tear of even that one tormented child who beat her chest with her little fist and prayed to 'dear God' in a stinking outhouse with her unredeemed tears!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Mother, Art, Children

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• Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

  Agnes Macphail

  Inspirational, Life, Tests

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• It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.

  Martin Luther

  Happiness, Heart, Aging

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• Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Angel, Hands, Long

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• Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art.

  Victor Hugo

  Beauty, Art, Marble

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• Dear God, I prayed, all unafraid (as we're inclined to do), I do not need a handsome man but let him be like You; I do not need one big and strong nor yet so very tall, nor need he be some genius, or wealthy, Lord, at all; but let his head be high, dear God, and let his eye be clear, his shoulders straight, whate'er his state, whate'er his earthly sphere; and let his face have character, a ruggedness if soul, and let his whole life show, dear God, a singleness of goal; then when he comes (as he will come) with quiet eyes aglow, I'll understand that he's the man I prayed for long ago.

  Ruth Graham

  Strong, Character, Eye

  Ruth Bell Graham (2007). “Footprints of a Pilgrim”, p.51, Thomas Nelson

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• It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Inspiring, Mom, Dad

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• Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.

  Garrison Keillor

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Forgiveness

  Garrison Keillor (1990). “Leaving Home”, p.17, Penguin

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• He prayeth best who loveth best.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Prayer, Praying, I Pray To God

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" l. 615 (1798)

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• Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

  Garrison Keillor

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Good Life

  "Leaving Home". Book by Garrison Keillor, 1987.

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• 'Dear God,' she prayed, 'let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.'

  Betty Smith

  Beautiful, Brooklyn, Hours

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• Today 23 years ago dear Grandmama died. I wonder what she would have thought of a Labour Government.

  George V

  Government, Years, Today

  1924 Of Queen Victoria. Diary entry, 22 Jan, on having invited Ramsay Macdonald to form the first Labour administration.

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• Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

  Betty Smith

  Dream, Prayer, Liars

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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