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Sunday Inspiration: Leaders
Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
—Octavia E. Butler
Sunday Inspiration: Being Heard
Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person, they are almost indistinguishable.
—David W. Augsburger
Sunday Inspiration: Food, Cheer, and Song
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
—J. R. R. Tolkien
Sunday Inspiration: Protest
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
—Elie Wiesel
Sunday Inspiration: Powerful
When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
—Audre Lorde
Sunday Inspiration: Boldly Disappoint
Boldly disappoint those who ask you to be anything other than who you truly are.
—Mark Sandlin
Sunday Inspiration: Thoughts
Do not believe your thoughts, neither when they tell you that you are terrible, nor when they tell you that you are a saint.
—Saint Paisios the Athonite
Sunday Inspiration: Progress
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.
—C. S. Lewis
Sunday Inspiration: Being Kind
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
—Eric Hoffer
Sunday Inspiration: Give Light
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
—Desiderius Erasmus
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