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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will…

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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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I'm tired of hearing about innocent victims. It's fiction, If you live on this planet you're guilty, period, f*** you, next case,… — George Carlin
Recognize that you have the courage within you to fulfill the purpose of your birth. Summon forth the power of your inner… — Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone. — Maya Angelou
Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born,… — Karen Maitland
Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair — Trevor Jones
Decisive moment: the one when you will be really alone. And it is perhaps this that makes her hesitate: not the void,… — Helene Cixous
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today,… — Frederick Buechner
How strangely inaccurate it is to measure length of living by length of life! The space between your birth and death is… — Edwin Way Teale
Your birth may be common, But death must be history. — Adolf Hitler
It can be very difficult to trace your birth parents. — Christopher Eccleston
Examine everything that you've been taught, not simply what you've been taught in school, but the images that have been held up… — Frederick Lenz
The truth for women living in a modern world is that they must take increasing responsibility for the skills they bring into… — Michel Odent

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