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Sunday Inspiration: A Daring Adventure
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
—Helen Keller
Sunday Inspiration: Seeing Things as We Are
Most of us do not see things as they are; we see things as we are. That is no small point.
—Richard Rohr
Sunday Inspiration: Praying
There is something deeply hypocritical about praying for a problem you are unwilling to resolve.
—Miroslave Volf
Sunday Inspiration: Disarming Hostility
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each person’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sunday Inspiration: Dealing with Pain
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
—James Baldwin
Sunday Inspiration: Gentleness
In our time of political unrest and upheaval, you must cling to your softness. Gentleness is an act of political resistance.
—Mia Tabib
Sunday Inspiration: Do It Anyway
People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.
For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.
—Teresa of Calcutta
Sunday Inspiration: Forgiveness
Until we can forgive the person who harmed us, that person will hold the keys to our happiness; that person will be our jailor. When we forgive, we take back control of our own fate and our feelings. … We forgive for ourselves.
—Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu
Sunday Inspiration: The Beginning of Love
The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
—Thomas Merton
Sunday Inspiration: Be Angry
We should all be angry. Anger has a long history of bringing about positive change; but, in addition to being angry, I’m also hopeful. Because I believe deeply in the ability of human beings to make and remake themselves for the better.
—Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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