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A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's…

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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge…
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party…
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate…
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to…
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no…
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of…
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems…

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Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when… — Jim Courier
Let him go where he will, he can only find so much beauty or worth as he carries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do cultures differ from one another? Above all, in their customs. Tell me how you dress, how you act, what are… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
When you go into a game on offense, you make a couple moves and see what the defender is going to do.… — Oscar Robertson
Guru is heavy, because he carries Lord Krishna in his heart. — Radhanath Swami
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time… — Alexey Brodovitch
Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day;… — Martin Luther
The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical… — Arthur Koestler
Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but… — James A. Baldwin
A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and… — Frederick Buechner
What God does in time, He planned from eternity. And all that He planned in eternity He carries out in time. — J I Packer
If we don't act now, then we will go back to what has happened before and then of course the whole thing… — Tony Blair

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