“I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.”
Leonard Cohen book Beautiful Losers
Source: Beautiful Losers
“Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.”
2000s
Source: [I, Isaac, Take Thee, Rebekah: Moving from Romance to Lasting Love, 2005, 9781418515812, http://books.google.com/books?id=lhWCB2v3UlQC&pg=PA43&dq=%22Unless+I+understand+the+Cross%22, 43]
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