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Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
Harold S. Kushner
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When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary, and the very process of life begins to nourish your soul.
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