“For prayer the ear of the soul is more important than the tongue: Faith comes from listening. Most people make the same mistake with God that they do with their friends; they do all the talking. God has things to tell us which will enlighten us – we must wait for him to speak. The Lord hears us more readily […]
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“We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments […]
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“Our job in this life is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.” – Steven Pressfield
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‘We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.” – Thornton Wilder
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“To the man who is afraid, everything rustles.” – Sophocles
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“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything . . . affects everything.” […]
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“The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.” – Ernest Hemingway
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain
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“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
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“When millions of people are suffering from a poverty which means hunger, malnutrition, sickness, illiteracy and degradation, we must not only remind ourselves that no one has a right to exploit another for his own advantage, but also and above all we must recommit ourselves to that solidarity which enables others to live out in the actual circumstances of their […]
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