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to emulate Christ in his relationships

[...] Ambrose had an idea so elegant that Perry wondered if there might be something to it. The idea was that God was to be found in relationships, not in liturgy and ritual, and that the way to worship Him and approach Him was to emulate Christ in his relationships with his disciples, by exercisin…

—p.32 Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
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lubricious

Referring warmly to the Arizona trip, or more archly to the sensitivity training they did on Sunday nights, or more lubriciously to certain choice girls on the Crossroads roster

—p.29 by Jonathan Franzen
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God only knew

God only knew what expression was on his face. He walked on, blindly overshot the main entrance, and found himself outside the function hall. He was taking on dark water through large holes in his hull. The stupidity of never once imagining that she could go to Ambrose. The clairvoyant certainty th…

—p.16 by Jonathan Franzen
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how he knew that God existed

An embarrassed silence fell. The last daylight of November was dying in crayon colors beneath the clouds on the suburban horizon. Russ now had more than enough to be ashamed of later, more than enough to be sure that he deserved to suffer. The sense of rightness at the bottom of his worst days, the…

—p.12 by Jonathan Franzen
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scabrous

This was a scabrous half-truth. Russ himself had originally proposed the name.

—p.11 by Jonathan Franzen
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