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For Recovering: The quote on faith in its entirety.
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<blockquote data-quote="recoveringenabler" data-source="post: 592312" data-attributes="member: 13542"><p><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">Thank you Barbara, I dug around on the web and found this: It is beautifully said.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">(Ezekial saw the wheel</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">(Way up in the middle of the air --</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">(O Ezekial saw the wheel</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">(Way in the middle of the air!</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">(Now the big wheel runs by faith</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">(And the little wheel runs by the grace of God --</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">(The above made up by professional hope experts, you might say, because willful, voluntary, intentional hope was the only kind they had in anything like long supply. Faith is not, contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet; it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of Time and right into Eternity, which is not the end of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, that old Eternal Now. So that you end up living not in the future ((in your intentional "act of faith")) but in the present. After all.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">(Courage is </span></span><em>willful</em><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'"> hope.) </span></span></p><p><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">&#8213; </span></span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/52310.Joanna_Russ" target="_blank">Joanna Russ</a><span style="color: #181818"><span style="font-family: 'georgia'">, </span></span><em><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/129528" target="_blank">On Strike Against God</a></em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="recoveringenabler, post: 592312, member: 13542"] [COLOR=#181818][FONT=georgia]Thank you Barbara, I dug around on the web and found this: It is beautifully said. (Ezekial saw the wheel[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#181818][FONT=georgia](Way up in the middle of the air --[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#181818][FONT=georgia](O Ezekial saw the wheel[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#181818][FONT=georgia](Way in the middle of the air![/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#181818][FONT=georgia](Now the big wheel runs by faith[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#181818][FONT=georgia](And the little wheel runs by the grace of God --[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#181818][FONT=georgia](The above made up by professional hope experts, you might say, because willful, voluntary, intentional hope was the only kind they had in anything like long supply. Faith is not, contrary to the usual ideas, something that turns out to be right or wrong, like a gambler's bet; it's an act, an intention, a project, something that makes you, in leaping into the future, go so far, far, far ahead that you shoot clean out of Time and right into Eternity, which is not the end of time or a whole lot of time or unending time, but timelessness, that old Eternal Now. So that you end up living not in the future ((in your intentional "act of faith")) but in the present. After all.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#181818][FONT=georgia](Courage is [/FONT][/COLOR][I]willful[/I][COLOR=#181818][FONT=georgia] hope.) [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#181818][FONT=georgia]― [/FONT][/COLOR][URL="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/52310.Joanna_Russ"]Joanna Russ[/URL][COLOR=#181818][FONT=georgia], [/FONT][/COLOR][I][URL="http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/129528"]On Strike Against God[/URL][/I] [/QUOTE]
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