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> [Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pope-francis/pay-attention-my-young-friends-to-go-against-the-current-this-is-good/)

[Pope Francis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pope-francis/)

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> [Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in their house, that we are new wood grafted onto their tree.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-barth/jews-have-god-s-promise-and-if-we-christians-have-it-too-then-it-is/)

[Karl Barth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-barth/)

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