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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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We can endure much more than we think we can all human experience testifies to that. All we need to do is learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Don't deny it, don't be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. One day, the pain will be gone and you will still be there.
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Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.
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What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
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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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If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul
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We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life we possess.
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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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No good deed ever goes wasted.
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It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the program much of the time, they do not even know what is on. But they are desperate for the sound of another human voice in their lives
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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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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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Prayer is simply coming into the presence of God. Because when you come into the presence of God, even the things you don't have matter a lot less.
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If that were God's plan, it's a bad bargain I don't want to have to deal with a God like that...My sense is God and I came to an accommodation with each other a couple of decades ago, where he's gotten used to the things that I'm not capable of and I've come to terms with things he's not capable of...and we care very much about each other.
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The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good people. And then happiness sort of sneaks in the back window while they are busy doing good.
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The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again.
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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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I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
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History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win.
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. . .We are here to finish God's labors. . .so that we could be His partners in completing the work of creation.
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