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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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Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
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Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.
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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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But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.
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I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived.
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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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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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Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
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There are some things we should feel guilty about, but the guilt feelings should attach to the deed, not to the doer.
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Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
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What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
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One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
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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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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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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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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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Our society puts too much emphasis on finding someone who will love you our culture focuses too much on being loved and not enough on being a loving person.
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Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in isolation. The qualities that make us human emerge only in the ways we relate to other people.
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When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.
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