“I could more easily contain Niagara Falls in a tea cup than I can comprehend the wild, uncontainable love of God.”

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

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writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Ma… 1934–2013

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