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God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help.

Harold S. Kushner

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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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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 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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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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Integrity is not something that grownups have and adolescents can aspire to. Integrity is something that all of us, at all ages, are constantly striving for.
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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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. . .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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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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Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.
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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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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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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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Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human.
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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 responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.
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What cannot be achieved in one lifetime will happen when one lifetime is joined to another.
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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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When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.
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The God I believe in is not so fragile that you hurt Him by being angry at him, or so petty that He will hold it against you for being upset with Him.
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God is like a mirror. The mirror never changes, but everybody who looks at it sees something different.
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