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01-06-2007 | Book Review

Seven Spiritual Gifts of Waiting. By Holly W. Whitcomb

127 pp. Augsburg Books: Minne-apolis, 2005, $11.99

Author: Claude Barbre

Published in: Journal of Religion and Health | Issue 2/2007

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T.S. Eliot wrote in the Four Quartets (“East Coker”):

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope

For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith

But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for though;

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

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Title: Seven Spiritual Gifts of Waiting. By Holly W. Whitcomb
127 pp. Augsburg Books: Minne-apolis, 2005, $11.99
Author: Claude Barbre
Publication date: 01-06-2007
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Published in: Journal of Religion and Health / Issue 2/2007
Print ISSN: 0022-4197
Electronic ISSN: 1573-6571
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-007-9112-7

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Seven Spiritual Gifts of Waiting. By Holly W. Whitcomb

127 pp. Augsburg Books: Minne-apolis, 2005, $11.99

Excerpt

At a glance: The ONWARDS insulin icodec trials

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