“The Sermon on the Mount—it never ends for you, does it? If somebody kicks your right buttock, turn the other cheek.”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 15 (p. 260)
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Ich möchte Pastor auf dieser Insel sein. Einfachen Menschen die Bergpredigt erklären und die Welt Welt sein lassen.
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