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Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.
Anonymous At the Corner of East and Now: A Modern Life in Ancient Christian Orthodoxy
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Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.
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At the Corner of East and Now: A Modern Life in Ancient Christian Orthodoxy

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