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Sunday Inspiration: One Body
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
Sunday Inspiration: The Function of Freedom
The function of freedom is to free someone else.
—Toni Morrison
Sunday Inspiration: True Power
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
Sunday Inspiration: Everything for Granted
In a culture that pushes us to focus not on what we can give, but on what we can take, what we tend to take is everything for granted.
—Andrea Gibson
Sunday Inspiration: Accumulating Books
He who accumulates books, accumulates dreams, and if you have many dreams, you are still young even when you are eighty years old.
—Ugo Ojetti
Sunday Inspiration: A Brave Faith
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
Sunday Inspiration: Peace
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
Sunday Inspiration: The Divine Image
Every person bears the divine image, and so when anyone is injured, the heart of God is wounded.
—John Calvin
Sunday Inspiration: Do Not Be Daunted
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
Sunday Inspiration: Gratitude
Since I’m not sure of the address to which to send my gratitude, I put it out there in everything I do.
—Michael J. Fox
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