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Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from…

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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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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. — Walter Benjamin
She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on… — Kate Chopin
If the enemy has occupied them before you, do not follow him, but retreat and try to entice him away. — Sun Tzu
A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away. — Tennessee Williams
If a person seems wicked, do not cast him away. Awaken him with your words, elevate him with your deeds, repay his… — Laozi
A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance. — Roger McDonald
Often nothing keeps the pupil on the move but his faith in his teacher, whose mastery is now beginning to dawn on… — Eugen Herrigel
You have a wonderful child. Then, when he's thirteen, gremlins carry him away and leave in his place a stranger who gives… — Jill Eikenberry
In speaking of the capitalists who strive only for profit, only to get rich, I do not want to say that these… — Joseph Stalin
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him… — George Bernard Shaw
On Sunday 8 April 1945, he had just finished conducting a service of worship at Schoenberg, when two soldiers came took him… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It has been wisely said that you can take a child of God, put him in a dungeon with a Bible and… — Adrian Rogers

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