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Sunday Inspiration: You Shall Know the Truth
You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.
—Flannery O’Connor
Sunday Inspiration: Reading
Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school.
—Beverly Cleary
Sunday Inspiration: Stand Up for Others
Do not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave—and it is often hard to be brave—be kind.
—Sarah Kendzior
Sunday Inspiration: Hope
Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man.
—Pliny the Elder
Sunday Inspiration: The Truth
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
—Flannery O’Connor
Sunday Inspiration: Lighthouses
Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.
—Anne Lamott
Sunday Inspiration: Being Human Together
My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
—Desmond Tutu
Sunday Inspiration: Chains
It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
—Voltaire
Sunday Inspiration: Worry
Worry does not empty tomorrow of sorrow; it empties today of strength.
—Corrie ten Boom
Sunday Inspiration: The Greatest Mistake
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
—Edmund Burke
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