From Calvin Miller… People are unreasonable,illogical and self-centered.Love them anyway. If you do good, people willaccuse you of ulterior motives.Do good anyway. If you are successful, you winfalse friends and true enemies.Succeed anyway. The good you do todaywill be forgotten tomorrow.Do good anyway. Honesty and franknessmake you vulnerable.Be honest and frank anyway. What you spend […]
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“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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Little David comes home from first grade and tells his father that they learned about the history of Valentine’s Day. “Since Valentine’s Day is for a Christian saint and we’re Jewish,” he asks, “will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?” David’s father thinks a bit, then says “No, I don’t think […]
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That means – caring, giving, forgiving – without expecting anything in return. Woman’s Letter “Dearest Jimmy, No words could ever express the great unhappiness I’ve felt since breaking our engagement. Please say you’ll take me back. No one could ever take your place in my heart, so please forgive me. I love you, I love […]
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[From Dww-work]… LATE HAVE I LOVED YOU SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Saint Augustine was grateful he had become a Christian, but regretted he had used so much of his li~ for his own selfish pursuits before he did. LATE HAVE I loved you, O beauty so ancient and so new. Late have I loved you! […]
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Anne Lamott – the day after Nov. 13, 2015 Terrorist Actions in Paris, France I wish there was a website we could turn to called, “What it means, What is True, and What to do.” Lots of very tense religious people are going to insist that their Scripture answers all these questions. That’s nice. Lots […]
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W. H. Auden described in his famous poem “Leap Before You Look”: The sense of danger must not disappear: The way is certainly both short and steep, However gradual it looks from here; Look if you like, but you will have to leap. Tough-minded men get mushy in their sleep And break the by-laws any […]
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Occasionally you meet someone with a thousand-year heart. The person with the thousand-year heart has made the most of the passionate, tumultuous phase of love. Those months or years of passion have engraved a deep commitment in their mind. The person or thing they once loved hotly they now love warmly but steadily, happily, unshakably. […]
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Self-control is like a muscle. If you are called upon to exercise self-control often in the course of a day, you get tired and you don’t have enough strength to exercise as much self-control in the evening. But love is the opposite. The more you love, the more you can love. A person who has […]
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In his masterpiece, My Bright Abyss, the poet Christian Wiman writes, In any true love— a mother’s for her child, a husband’s for his wife, a friend’s for a friend— there is an excess energy that always wants to be in motion. Moreover, it seems to move not simply from one person to another but […]
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