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Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

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You don't have to be religious to have a soul everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.
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In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office
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I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness sneaks into their lives while they are busy doing those things. It is a by-product, never a primary goal.
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The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him.
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We pray to you, O God ... for strength, determination, and willpower, to do instead of just to pray, to become instead of merely to wish.
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God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
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One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
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I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
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Everything that God created is potentially holy, and our task as humans is to find that holiness in seemingly unholy situations. When we can do this, we will have learned to nurture our souls.
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Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so there is no longer a split in the soul ... For the person of integrity, life may not be easy but it is simple: Figure out what is right and do it. All other considerations come in second.
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We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.
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When I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in their lives. I suggest they find a way to give back to the world in order to feel a sense of completeness.
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No good deed ever goes wasted.
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Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are human.
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The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.
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What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
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We have confused God with Santa Claus. And we believe that prayer means making a list of everything you don't have but want and trying to persuade God you deserve it. Now I'm sorry, that's not God, that's Santa Claus.
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Our souls are not hungry for fame, comfort, wealth, or power. Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter.
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Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.
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Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
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