- “Faith, hope and charity go together. Hope is practised through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God’s mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness. Faith tells us that God has given his Son for our sakes and gives us the victorious certainty that it is really true: God is love! It thus transforms our impatience and our doubts into the sure hope that God holds the world in his hands and that, as the dramatic imagery of the end of the Book of Revelation points out, in spite of all darkness he ultimately triumphs in glory. Faith, which sees the love of God revealed in the pierced heart of Jesus on the Cross, gives rise to love. Love is the light—and in the end, the only light—that can always illuminate a world grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working. Love is possible, and we are able to practise it because we are created in the image of God. To experience love and in this way to cause the light of God to enter into the world—this is the invitation I would like to extend with the present Encyclical.”
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Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger),
God Is Love: Deus Caritas Est
- “The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them.”
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David Levithan,
The Realm of Possibility
- “One often has to do what they have to do in order to do what they want to do; however if you only do what you want to do then you will never do what you have to do!”
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Dr. C. Moorer,
From Failure to Promise: An Uncommon Path to Professoriate
- “God, I am trying to recover my faith. Please don’t abandon me in the middle ofthis adventure, I prayed, pushing my fears aside.”
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Paulo Coelho,
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
- “A person should never expel their energies in unnecessary ways.”
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Jessica Marie Baumgartner,
The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
- “Miracles happens everyday. You have to open your heart, mind and soul to see these miraculous encounters.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Think Great: Be Great!
- “Faith without a measure of doubt ain’t worth a brass farthin’.”
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Howard Frank Mosher,
Walking to Gatlinburg
- “I once heard a Chicago-area pastor put it this way: we don’t need more Americans bowing down to the Democrat donkey or the Republican elephant. We need more Americans bowing down to the Lion of Judah.”
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Todd Starnes,
God Less America: Real Stories From the Front Lines of the Attack on Traditional Values
- “The more you go with the flow of life and surrender the outcome to God, and the less you seek constant clarity, the more you will find that fabulous things start to show up in your life.”
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Mandy Hale,
The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
- “I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.”
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Criss Jami,
Killosophy
- “You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath.”
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Lana Parrilla
- “We have not reached the consensus that to eat is a basic human right. This is an ethical crisis. This is a crisis of faith.”
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide,
Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization
- “Memories of the past are what drive us, whether to a life of beauty or a life of insanity is up to us.”
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Abhishek Shukla,
Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1
- “We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.”
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John Ortberg,
The Me I Want to Be: Becoming God’s Best Version of You
- “to have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.”
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Søren Kierkegaard,
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
- “What you want is within reach.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “The consequence model, the logical one, the amoral one, the one which refuses any divine intervention, is a problem really for just the (hypothetical) logician. You see, towards God I would rather be grateful for Heaven (which I do not deserve) than angry about Hell (which I do deserve). By this the logician within must choose either atheism or theism, but he cannot possibly through good reason choose anti-theism. For his friend in this case is not at all mathematical law: the law in that ‘this equation, this path will consequently direct me to a specific point’; over the alternative and the one he denies, ‘God will send me wherever and do it strictly for his own sovereign amusement.’ The consequence model, the former, seeks the absence of God, which orders he cannot save one from one’s inevitable consequences; hence the angry anti-theist within, ‘the logical one’, the one who wants to be master of his own fate, can only contradict himself – I do not think it wise to be angry at math.”
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Criss Jami,
Healology
- “Breath of life is common to all living beings.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita
- “Take a walk with me through nature and let’s gaze on the marvelous wonders of creation.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Think Great: Be Great!
- “Love only fails when we fail to love.”
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Tyler Edwards,
Zombie Church: Breathing Life Back Into the Body of Christ
- “Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness… and perhaps even Satan – Satan, in spite of himself – somehow serves to work out the will of God.”
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William Peter Blatty,
The Exorcist
- “When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving, the power of God brings to pass His purposes.”
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Thomas S. Monson
- “Ultimately we have nothing to fear. Jesus loves us, and he invites us to be confident in that love. As we seek to obey Him, we are not called to assess the risk involved and determine whether or not obedience will be beneficial or safe for us. We are simply called to trust and obey.”
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Dan Baumann,
A Beautiful Way: An Invitation to a Jesus-Centered Life
- “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
- “Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive.”
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Eknath Easwaran,
Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan: A Man to Match His Mountains
- “Start wherever you are! Low hanging fruit really tastes as good as the high stuff.”
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Abhishek Shukla,
KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “Endure to the very end.”
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Lailah Gifty Akita,
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “All people have the ability to feel for others through empathy.”
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Jessica Marie Baumgartner,
Walk Your Path: A Magical Awakening
- “Even if we do not know anything about the cosmos and how it runs, the fundamental questions about the meaning of our own lives stick in mind no matter whether the universe had and have whatsoever biological, chemical and physical properties. Faith in God or in religion is not concerned essentially with the steps and ‘how it is’ of and behind things. The things which we are able to explain through science relate to the physical phenomena. The existence of a being as a whole and with its physical parts and processes still begs the question ‘why’ and ‘for what end’?”
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Salman Ahmed Shaikh,
Reflections on the Origins in the Post COVID-19 World
- “…for liberty is an acknowledgment of faith in God and His works.”
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Frédéric Bastiat