{"id":4992,"date":"2016-03-06T07:12:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T14:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=4992"},"modified":"2016-03-06T07:12:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T14:12:18","slug":"jayber-crow-by-wendell-berry-10-great-quotes-from-a-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2016\/03\/jayber-crow-by-wendell-berry-10-great-quotes-from-a-masterpiece.html","title":{"rendered":"Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry: 10 Great Quotes from a Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/230\/2016\/01\/WBerry.001.jpeg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4876\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"Some Rights Reserved alignleft wp-image-4876 size-full\" title=\"image: neh.gov \/ design: tim suttle\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/230\/2016\/01\/WBerry.001.jpeg\" alt=\"WBerry.001\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\"><\/a>\u201cYou have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out \u2013 perhaps a little at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cTo love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. To know it\u2019s being ruined is hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cChrist did not come to found an organized religion but\u2026 to found an unorganized one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cFaith is not necessarily, or not soon, a resting place. Faith puts you out on a wide river in a boat, in the fog, in the dark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cSome of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cIf the devil doesn\u2019t exist\u2026 how do you explain that some people are a lot worse than they\u2019re smart enough to be?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe Economy does not take people\u2019s freedom by force, which would be against its principles, for it is very humane. It buys their freedom, pays for it, and then persuades its money back again with shoddy goods and the promise of freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cThe mercy of the world is you don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cYou can sometimes tell more by a man\u2019s silence and the set of his head than by what he says.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cYou have been given questions to which you cannot be given answers. You will have to live them out \u2013 perhaps a little at a time.\u201d \u201cTo love anything good, at any cost, is a bargain.\u201d \u201cI could die in peace, I think, if the world was beautiful. 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