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Those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. LOVE is stronger than fear, life stronger than…
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Why is it important that you are with God and God alone on the mountain top? It's important because it's the place…
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All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all…
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Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day. It is a choice…
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In true love the smallest distance is too great, and the greatest distance can be bridged.
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A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the…
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Life is not a possession to be defended, but a gift to be shared.
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Real grief is not healed by time... if time does anything, it deepens our grief. The longer we live, the more fully…
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When everything is dark, when we are surrounded by despairing voices, when we do not see any exits, then we can find…
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...When you can look into the face of human beings and you have enough light to recognize them as your brothers and…
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Your body needs to be held and to hold, to be touched and to touch. None of these needs is to be…
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To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it…
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God…
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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The Society is based on that great bottom law of human right, that nothing but crime can forfeit liberty. That no condition…
— Theodore Dwight Weld
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...Those laws are within the grasp of the human mind. God wanted us to recognize them by creating us after his own…
— Johannes Kepler
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Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and…
— Pope John Paul II
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Man, like Deity, creates in his own image.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Even the weakest and most vulnerable, the sick, the old, the unborn and the poor, are masterpieces of God's creation, made in…
— Pope Francis
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Man created God in his own image.
— Ludwig Feuerbach
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Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She…
— James Russell Lowell
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God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.
— Frank Wedekind
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God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image.
— Irving Layton
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Monsier Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy.…
— Carine Roitfeld
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