Russ Ramsey Quotes

#1. The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.

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#2. Walking through suffering is a work that is bound by limitation. Often it isn't that the afflicted are unwilling to let others in. It is just that there comes a certain point in a person's suffering where there is no apparent port of entry.

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#3. I, the infirm, find myself caring for the sorrows and fears of the well.

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#4. Often the best gifts we can give each other cost nothing.

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#5. The Law of the Lord is a love story.

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#6. With all due respect to my surgeon, in a perfect world he would be out of a job.

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#7. To walk in faith is to confess that we do not know what awaits us, and the faith I have embraced does not promise an easy road.

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#8. There is something holy about taking up the task of stewarding a life, especially our own. If we come to this work at all, we must come with humble expectations and a willingness to be led. We submit to the process, trusting that the science is sound, even when what we're called to do hurts.

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#9. We want the people around us to show us a satisfactory measure of genuine empathy, but no one has any idea what that looks like. This puts everyone in the precarious position of guaranteed failure. I know that no one knows how to deal with stuff like this. There are no experts here.

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