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Saturday, August 9, 2014

To seek to know what is true -- Weekend Quote


Image by Maliz Ong


We cannot know the 
whole truth,
which belongs to 
God alone,
but our task 
nevertheless
is to seek to know 
what is true.
And if we offend 
gravely enough
against what we know 
to be true,
as by failing badly enough 
to deal 
affectionately 
and 
responsibly
with our land 
and 
our neighbors,
truth will retaliate with
ugliness,
poverty,
and 
disease.
The crisis of this line of thought
is the realization
that we are at once
limited
and 
unendingly responsible
for what we know 
and do. 

~Wendell Berry    






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