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That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM
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Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s... ELISABETH ELLIOT — This world is full of trouble, umfundisi.
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— Yet you believ...
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Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If y... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffe... DADA VASWANI
Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream. for all of u... MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't n...
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Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL
Whether one is Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian, how you live your life is proof that you are or not... MOTHER TERESA
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The creative process taps into our deepest subconscious, and we are each of us sex-crazed - products... LYNN COADY We use the word cross in our hymns, in our piety, in our prayers, and in our pastoral language. But ...
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond meas... MARYANNE WILLIAMSON It is when we are up against death, when we find ourselves in despair, that the God of cross is near...
ANDREW ROOT Every suffering is caused by a thought,what we need to do is stop thinking of that thought to elimin...
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The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of ma... MICHAEL LEUNIG
I can't control what happens on the outside but I can learn to control what happens on the inside. W... AKIROQ BROST We all need to accept that everybody is different and that we cannot control the feelings, beliefs o...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA There are countries in Africa who also need our help, but were not there because theres no oil there...
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We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who be... KAREN ARMSTRONG
The Christian leader of the future is called to be completely irrelevant and to stand in this world ... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN
God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've fou... CRAIG GROESCHEL
Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be h... DR. CARL SAGAN
The cross always simultaneously means rejection, and that the disgrace of suffering is part of the c... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER We hope that this donation eases at least some of the deep suffering of all those affected by Hurric...
JIM MORAN The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, l...
ADAM BAGDASARIAN America has drifted from its Christian roots, and organizations like this have got to stand up for o...
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To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant ... CESARE PAVESE Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
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Pain and evil confront us as a surd. Suffering, our own and that of others, is an experience through... KALLISTOS WARE
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We have this window of opportunity; we have a chance to make something real happen. Something possib... MICHELLE OBAMA
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The words you can’t find, you borrow.We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
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a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We have become disconnected from our true selves, and naturally, this has produced a deep sense of l...
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...the books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the d... FRANZ KAFKA
The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA
Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that ... MARILYN MANSON Life is suffering. Life is not resistance to suffering. The point of life is to suffer. This is why ...
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Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires ... HENRI J.M. NOUWEN
For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we f... FRANCIS SPUFFORD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
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I'll tell you that when an innocent person is killed, we never go about asking or inquiring whet... HASSAN ROUHANI
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or c... HERMANN HESSE
None of us has control over the economy, the job market, or anything else in the global sense. But w... EDWARD WHITACRE, JR.
We are a generation of women that has listened to the much louder voices of parents, teachers, emplo... CONNIE STEVENS It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real s...
LYNN HAROLD HOUGH We have to find a way to bring our energy and level of concentration with us on the road. At home, w...
MAMADI DIANE If they didn't put a body on us, they just jumped over us. Their quickness, speed and height were to...
ED GOETZ Sometimes I wonder how much of our suffering we allow or impose on ourselves simply in search of our...
DARRELL CALKINS You hear about our conservative background and know that we're Christian guys, but we're not...
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