Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

 

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.
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Last letter to George Burns, as quoted in Two Minutes for God : Quick Fixes for the Spirit (2007) by Peter B. Panagore, p. 73; this was later used in a slogan for the United Church of Christ: "Never place a period where God has placed a comma. God Is Still Speaking."

 

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Oh, I'd reach beyond the comma of you
To the invisible phrase, the dangling Omega! No use. No act
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Of furry you, poised fleetingly, bright flex,
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As period to end what has no period, no, no
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