The children of Adam are the members of one body, who are in their creation from the same essence. If one member is injured, other members will also feel pain. If you are unsympathetic to the misery of others, it is not right that they should call you a human being. —Saadi Shirazi
You will continue to suffer if you react emotionally to everything that is said to you. True power comes from stepping back and observing with logic. When words control you, others control you. Breathe and let things pass. —Bruce Lee
I don’t want an easy faith, I want a brave faith. I want a faith that takes risks, that asks questions, that experiments, that evolves, that thrives amidst change and obeys amidst doubt. I want a faith that engages both my heart and my head, a faith that operates out of love, not fear, a faith that leaps when it needs to and crawls when it has to. —Rachel Held Evans
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. —Thomas Merton
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. —The Talmud
Darrell J. Pursiful 