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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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Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.
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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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That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we hold our friends to a standard of perfection, or if they do that to us, we will end up far lonelier than we want to be.
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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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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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Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach. But can you find the holiness in a struggle for life?
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Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
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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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People who pray for miracles usually don't get miracles. But people who pray for courage, for strength to bear the unbearable, for the grace to remember what they have left instead of what they have lost, very often find their prayers answered. Their prayers help them tap hidden reserves of faith and courage that were not available to them before.
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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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Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.
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When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.
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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 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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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.
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