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  • The subject becomes a kind of child of the writer, regarding him as a permissive, all-accepting, all-forgiving mother, and expecting that the book will be written by her.

    Sam Harris: The Perils of the Print Interview Sam Harris 2011

  • With older denominations spawning schismatic denominations and churches spawning yet newer churches, there was no single all-embracing, all-forgiving church to serve as a solvent for differences.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • With older denominations spawning schismatic denominations and churches spawning yet newer churches, there was no single all-embracing, all-forgiving church to serve as a solvent for differences.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • With older denominations spawning schismatic denominations and churches spawning yet newer churches, there was no single all-embracing, all-forgiving church to serve as a solvent for differences.

    The Chosen Peoples Todd Gitlin 2010

  • The young are the children of media images, and the Negro savior -- the all-forgiving, supernaturally inclined Morgan Freeman-like healing figure is as familiar to them as text messaging.

    Leonce Gaiter: Obama The Less And Less Magic Negro 2008

  • “Love,” we are told, “suffereth long and is kind ... beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things” — that sweet, generous, all-forgiving tenderness of love was not in the pagan, Oscar Wilde, and therefore even his deepest passion never won to complete reconciliation and ultimate redemption.

    Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

  • He will forgive her, for He is all-forgiving, but Allah is saddened by what she did.

    A Thousand Splendid Suns Hosseini, Khaled 2007

  • Medieval Christians surviving the Black Plague had their faith sorely tried and many realized that a god who sent such unpleasantness among "his people" was clearly not an omniscient and all-forgiving god, but rather more likely a hoax perpetrated on them by a corrupt clergy, a parable of tyranny on the model of all too frequent human tyrants.

    Faith, Relativism, and Liberalism 2006

  • I`ve knitted a bit more of the leg than you see here and it feels lovely and soft, but it`s not as easy to work with as an all-forgiving 75% wool 25% nylon blend or similar.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Spinningfishwife 2006

  • I`ve knitted a bit more of the leg than you see here and it feels lovely and soft, but it`s not as easy to work with as an all-forgiving 75% wool 25% nylon blend or similar.

    A week of minor irritations. Spinningfishwife 2006

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