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- In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
- Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet…
- All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and…
- You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to…
- Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next.…
- Discipline, for the Christian, begins with the body. We have only one. It is this body that is the primary material given to us for…
- Faith is not an instinct. It certainly is not a feeling - feelings don't help much when you're in the lions' den or hanging on…
- Thanksgiving and Christmas then, for us who love God, are not mere time outs from work days. They are a celebration of the gift of…
- This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him,…
- Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being…
- It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a…
- Does God ask us to do what is beneath us? This question will never trouble us again if we consider the Lord of heaven taking…
- If God, like a father, denies us what we want now it is in order to give us some far better thing later on. The…
- God never denies us our hearts desire except to give us something better.
- Sometimes we want things we were not meant to have. Because he loves us, the Father says no. Faith trusts that no. Faith is willing…
- God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but…
- One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today.…
- Does it make sense to pray for guidance about the future if we are not obeying in the thing that lies before us today? How…
- Choices will continually be necessary and -- let us not forget -- possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to…
- If we hold tightly to anything given to us unwilling to allow it to be used as the Giver means it to be used we…
- To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and…
- I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us…
- God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well…
- The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set…
- He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong