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I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but paul farmer is the least ordinary person i've ever met... he's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and i hope my book can help in some small way.

-Tracy Kidder

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I Usually Write About Ordinary People And

Tracy Kidder

I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but paul farmer is the least ordinary person i've ever met... he's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and i hope my book can help in some small way.

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And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. for an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. it is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.

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You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but god's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can save you - not even a book that can instruct you, but a book on which you can venture an eternity - not only a book which can give relief to your spirit, but redemption to your soul - a book which contains salvation, and conveys it to you, one which shall at once be the saviour's book and the sinner's.

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