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Sunday Inspiration: Our Job

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy.
—Thomas Merton

Sunday Inspiration: Like Brothers

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.
—Martin Luther King Jr.

Sunday Inspiration: Keeping Silent

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.
—Victor Hugo

Sunday Inspiration: Our True Destiny

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone… We find it with another.
—Thomas Merton

Sunday Inspiration: Kindling a Light

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
—Carl Jung

Sunday Inspiration: What Lies within Us

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
—Henry D. Haskins

Sunday Inspiration: Grace

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
—Flannery O’Connor

Sunday Inspiration: Books

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
—Ray Bradbury

Sunday Inspiration: Indifference

Indifference is the one thing that makes the angels weep.
—William James

Sunday Inspiration: The Soul

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
—Marcus Aurelius