"Oh, how thunderous the applause must be in Heaven, all those times we are mocked on earth for the sake of His name."

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You know how it is in the symphony when you are listening to the symphony, the last notes die away, and there's often a beat of silence in the auditorium before the applause begins. It's a very full and pregnant silence. Now theology should bring us to live into that silence, into that pregnant pause.

— Karen Armstrong