Karl Barth

The simplest form of gratitude

Joy is really the simplest form of gratitude.

To clasp one's hands in prayer is the beginning of an uprising against the disorder of the world.

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I come from God,
I belong to God,
I return to God.

~ Ignatius thanks to Mary Ward