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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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