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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
Sunday Inspiration: Commitment
Commitment is doing what you said you would do, after the feeling you said it in has passed.
—Saint Camillus
Sunday Inspiration: Unforgettable
I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
—Maya Angelou
Sunday Inspiration: I Don’t Want Peace
If peace means keeping my mouth shut in the midst of injustice and evil, I don’t want it. If peace means a willingness to be exploited economically, dominated politically, humiliated and segregated, I don’t want peace.
—Martin Luther King Jr.
Sunday Inspiration: The Wrong Thing
Few people revel in doing the wrong thing. Most of us just convince ourselves it’s not all that wrong.
—Tim Fall