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He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and…

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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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Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is… — Francis Bacon
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I think the true gardener is a lover of his flowers, not a critic of them. I think the true gardener is… — Reginald Farrer
In the entire circle of the year there are no days so delightful as those of a fine October, when the trees… — Alexander Smith
It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright. — Murray Rothbard
On entering a temple we assume all signs of reverence. How much more reverent then should we be before the heavenly bodies,… — Seneca the Younger
We all felt the majesty of the body. In a very short period of time we had seen something that was bigger… — William DeVries
Do you fast? Then feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, visit the sick, do not forget the imprisoned, have pity… — Saint John Chrysostom
At last there dawned the most beautiful day of all the days of my life. How perfectly I remember even the smallest… — Therese of Lisieux
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be… — Mark Twain
If you see things as in eternity, you are less a prey to the pain of their passing, and so you can… — Gerald Vann
The more deeply you understand other people, the more you will appreciate them, the more reverent you will feel about them. To… — Stephen Covey

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