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Sunday Inspiration: The Greatest Wisdom

The greatest wisdom in a man is to refrain from injuring another when he has the power to do so.
—Saint Teilo

Sunday Inspiration: Bread to the Poor

We gave bread to the poor,  but we did not ask sufficiently why the poor had no bread.
—Kallistos Ware

Sunday Inspiration: Character

The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
―Abigail Van Buren

Sunday Inspiration: Courage

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
—Winston Churchill

Sunday Inspiration: Right or Righteousness?

Each of us must decide whether it is more important to be proved right or to provoke righteousness.
—Bernice King

Sunday Inspiration: Be Soft

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.
—Iain Thomas

Sunday Inspiration: To Deal 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: Thinking

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
—Carl Jung

Sunday Inspiration: Freedom

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.
—Peter Marshall

Sunday Inspiration: True Peace

Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.
—Ursula Franklin