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Sunday Inspiration: The Right Time
The time is always right to do what is right.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunday Inspiration: Nothing Is Permanent
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles.
—Charlie Chaplin
Sunday Inspiration: To Do Good
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
—Matthew Arnold
Sunday Inspiration: Changing Oneself
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
—Leo Tolstoy
Sunday Inspiration: Genius
Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
Sunday Inspiration: Now
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.
—Rabbi Tarfon
Sunday Inspiration: Humility
It’s a universal law—intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Sunday Inspiration: Hate
Hate: It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.
—Maya Angelou
Sunday Inspiration: The Essence of a Person
Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish attack. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.
—Saint John of Kronstadt
Sunday Inspiration: Humility
Virtue without humility is not virtue.
—Saint Pachomios of Chios
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