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Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.

Harold S. Kushner

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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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When facing a dilemma, choose the more morally demanding alternative.
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Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so there is no longer a split in the soul ... For the person of integrity, life may not be easy but it is simple: Figure out what is right and do it. All other considerations come in second.
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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 of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.
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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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Our human bodies are miracles, not because they defy laws of nature, but precisely because they obey them.
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When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
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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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No good deed ever goes wasted.
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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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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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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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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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Never attribute to malice or other deliberate decision what can be explained by human frailty, imperfection, or ignorance.
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The idea is to find some bit of holiness in everything-food, sex, earning and spending money, having children, conversations with friends. Everything can be seen as a miracle, as part of God's plan. When we can truly see this, we nourish our souls.
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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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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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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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You don't have to be religious to have a soul everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.
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