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We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have…

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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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"None is good, save One, that is, God", as the Lord Jesus bath said. The rest are only tools in His hands.… — Swami Vivekananda
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire. — Benjamin Franklin
Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits upon the undeserving. It is a self-existent principle inherent… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame. — John Ruskin
Visualize what you want out of life and think big. Don’t feel undeserving. We're all deserving of living our dreams—some of us… — Jillian Michaels
Jesus Your name is a shelter for the hurting, Your name is a refuge for the weak, only Your name can redeem… — Lincoln Brewster
Be kind to people whether they deserve your kindness or not. If your kindness reaches the deserving good for you if your… — James Fadiman
The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the… — Cyprian
Only those who spread treachery, fire, and death out of hatred for the prosperity of others are undeserving of pity. — Jose Marti
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write,… — Anne Lamott
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no… — Jane Austen
Should we grieve over a little misplaced charity, when an all knowing, all wise Being showers down every day his benefits on… — Francis Atterbury

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