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What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.

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When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, Why does God let this happen? The better question to pose is to ask, What kind of community should we be so that mental retardation isn't a barrier to the enjoyment of one's full humanity?
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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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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One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.
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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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Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
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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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I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.
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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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Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.
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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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The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. When you come to look back on all that you have done in life, you will get more satisfaction from the pleasure you have brought into other people's lives than you will from the times that you outdid and defeated them.
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We cannot live without the knowledge that someone cares about us.
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