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Where to Find Happiness
Your success and happiness lie in you….Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. – Helen Keller
God is Too Good to Believe In
God is not too hard to believe in. God is too good to believe in, we being such strangers to such goodness. The love of God is to me absolutely overwhelming. – Rev. William Sloane Coffin, “Religion and Ethics”, Newsweekly, 8/27/04
What is Faith?
Faith is the courageous confidence that trusts in the Source of all gifts. – David Steindl-Rast
When Does God Die?
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illuminated by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond… Continue Reading “When Does God Die?”
To Whom and to What Are We Responsible?
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal Responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. – His Holiness the Dalai Lama
Grateful – That God Holds It All Together
It is a blessed thing to know that no power on earth, no temptation, no human frailty can dissolve what God holds together. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The Grandeur of God
The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil. – Gerard Manley Hopkins from God’s Grandeur
A Thought on Memorial Day
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It… Continue Reading “A Thought on Memorial Day”
Opposites Are Not Always What They Seem
The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference. – Elie Wiesel
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