Accepting Quote by Shane Claiborne

“Faith is not accepting the world as it is but insisting on building the world God wants.”

Shane Claiborne

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Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

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It takes an unusually philosophic mind to accept that all one’s suffering might be to no end, really, in the larger scheme of things.

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