- “Beautiful things happen when you believe, just open your heart and your mind to conceive.”
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Amaka Imani Nkosazana,
Heart Crush
- “Hope is often framed as optimism, but I like to think of it more as endurance. To hope is to believe that the future might look different from how things look right now. Sometimes that hope looks a lot like a mix of faith and waiting. Each day you live life after loss is another opportunity to exercise your muscle of hope.”
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Shelby Forsythia,
Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
- “My hope is my joy.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Think Great: Be Great!
- “You push the TRUTH off a cliff, but it will always fly. You can submerge the TRUTH under water, but it will not drown. You can place the TRUTH in the fire, but it will survive. You can bury the TRUTH beneath the ground, but it will arise. TRUTH always prevails!”
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Amaka Imani Nkosazana,
Heart Crush
- “I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God. God is nearer to me than I am to myself; my existence depends on the nearness and the presence of God.”
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Meister Eckhart
- “Žmogaus dieviškumą paslėpsime jo sielos gelmėse, nes tai vienintelė vieta, kurioje jis niekada nemėgins jos ieškoti. Brahma”
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Laurent Gounelle,
Et tu trouveras le trésor qui dort en toi
- “ففي قرارة نفسي اليومإيمان عميق جدًاإيمان لا يتزعزعبأنَّ المحبة وحدها هي المفتاح”
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ميخائيل نعيمه,
نجوى الغروب
- “Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.”
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Jonathan Anthony Burkett
- “It’s all about “Priorities” There’s No Such Thing as “Busy”
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Abhishek Shukla
- “Faith?” The word popped out before I could think about it. “Faith in what? A higher power? The gods? The universe?” My voice cracked at the end, and I realized what this whole thing had done to my faith, if I’d had any to begin with. I realized that the thought of a higher being in charge of all this made me angry.”
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Brodi Ashton,
Evertrue
- “Being a positive person doesn’t mean you don’t feel negative emotions. It means you have faith in your ability to get through tough situations, hope for better days and the willingness to see beyond the drama.”
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Leticia Rae
- “Why do many believers insist on repeatedly pointing to the crimes of 20th century dictators who led officially atheistic societies as some sort of evidence of their god’s existence? It makes no sense.If the rivers of blood on Stalin’s hands and Mao’s hands, for example, are supposed to prove there is a god, then what do the oceans of blood on the hands of several thousand years’ worth of religious kings, queens, presidents, popes, priests, generals, Crusadersm jihadists and tribal chiefs prove? It’s not, of course, but if bodycount is somehow the measure of a god’s likelihood of existence, then believers lose.It is clear that humans are quite capable of killing with or without images of gods bouncing around in their heads. If anything, however, history suggests that the concept of gods makes the idea of massacring your fellow man (and women and children, too, of course) a lot easier to act upon.”
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Guy P. Harrison
- “The best way to avoid a catastrophic conflict of beliefs is to be more compassionate about other people’s beliefs as long as they do not advocate for prejudices, bigotry and sectarianism.”
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Abhijit Naskar,
The Film Testament
- “Seek God every morning.Trust God every moment.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgement and effort to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.”
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Ann Voskamp,
One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are
- “My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.”
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C.S. Lewis,
A Grief Observed
- “If someone talks bad about us, we feel bad. If someone talks good about us we feel good. The question is ,Have we given our remote to others for the way we feel?Live your life in your way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
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Abhishek Shukla,
Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1
- “[The] insistence on the absolutely indiscriminate nature of compassion within the Kingdom is the dominant perspective of almost all of Jesus’ teaching.What is indiscriminate compassion? ‘Take a look at a rose. Is is possible for the rose to say, “I’ll offer my fragrance to good people and withhold it from bad people”? Or can you imagine a lamp that withholds its rays from a wicked person who seeks to walk in its light? It could do that only be ceasing to be a lamp. And observe how helplessly and indiscriminately a tree gives its shade to everyone, good and bad, young and old, high and low; to animals and humans and every living creature — even to the one who seeks to cut it down. This is the first quality of compassion — its indiscriminate character.’ (Anthony DeMello, The Way to Love)…What makes the Kingdom come is heartfelt compassion: a way of tenderness that knows no frontiers, no labels, no compartmentalizing, and no sectarian divisions.”
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Brennan Manning,
Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
- “The unknown is simply the Divine in motion, ready to take your hand.”
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Kris Franken,
The Call of Intuition: How to Recognize & Honor Your Intuition, Instinct & Insight
- “Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about helping man to live in harmony with his true self and to become the person God’s designed him to be.”
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Susan Howatch,
Mystical Paths
- “Lakewalker legends say the gods abandoned the world when the first malice came. And that they will return when the earth is entirely cleansed of its spawn. If you believe in gods.””Do you?””I believe they are not here, yes. It’s a faith of sorts.”
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Lois McMaster Bujold,
Beguilement
- “I have wandered freely in mystical traditions that are not religious and have been profoundly influenced by them. It is my church, however, that I keep returning, for she is my spiritual home.”
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Anthony de Mello S.J.
- “God is perceived by the heart, not by your reason. But what is reason? Your heart simplifying God’s guidance to fit your own needs.”
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Shannon L. Alder
- “I Am ! Two powerful words…. You must confess… I Am who God called me to be. I Am a Success. I Am not what you think of me. I Am more than a conqueror. I Am walking by Faith. I Am a Gift.”
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Amaka Imani Nkosazana,
Release The Ink
- “…the ongoing suspicion that scientific discoveries or rigorous biblical scholarship will undermine faith is a tacit admission that faith is threatened by knowledge, because it is ultimately constructed on weak or faulty assumptions and, like the proverbial house of cards, needs to be “protected” from collapsing. (p. 21)”
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Robin R. Meyers,
Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus
- “The only difference between success and failure is Lack of Vision”
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Abhishek Shukla,
KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Life doesn’t have a singular purpose and yet we try to pigeonhole this infinite gift by searching for a single meaning behind our existence. We hunger for meaning the way a starving man does food—convinced we will waste away without it. As though to experience what it is to be alive weren’t enough to justify drawing breath. Life is a multi-layered practice in exploration, self-definition, connection, and realization. The greatest challenge presented to us as human beings is to allow the infinite to be infinite; to accept that we will always be the student never the teacher, and allow the truths we’ve gathered to evolve because what we seek to understand is a living thing and is in a perpetual state of change. Humanity’s progression of understanding is open-ended. Anyone who professes mastery only shows their ignorance of the infinite procession of enlightenment of which they are a part. Each of us get to add a line into the coverless tome of understanding, which has no beginning and no end.”
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L.M. Browning
- “Reading about the response of people in stories, plays, poems, helps us to respond more courageously and openly at our own moments of turning.”
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Madeleine L’Engle,
Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
- “بربك لا تبكِ بكاء المظلوم !إن زرت أوطاني يوماً ولمحت نوافذ إنتظاري مغلقةوأبواب فقدي لك مؤصدة ،بربك لا تبكِ بكاء المظلوم !إن إحتفلوا بيوم ميلادك وبحثت عن صوتي بينهم ..ولم تجده ؟ وبحثت عن هداياي من بين هداياهم ولم تصلك”
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نجلاء حسن,
قلب صام عن هوى الرجال
- “Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.”
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Brennan Manning,
Abba’s Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging