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Sunday Inspiration: Every Storm
Every storm runs out of rain.
—Maya Angelou
Sunday Inspiration: Legends and Myths
I believe that legends and myths are largely made of truth.
—J. R. R. Tolkien
Sunday Inspiration: A Candle
Everyone must know that within them burns a candle—and that no one’s candle is identical with another’s, and that there is no human being without a candle…. One needs to ignite one’s candle and make of it a great torch to enlighten the whole world.
—Rav Kook
Sunday Inspiration: The Courage to Continue
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
—Winston Churchill
Sunday Inspiration: Learning
Smart people learn from everything and everyone, average people learn from their experiences, stupid people already have all the answers.
—Socrates
Sunday Inspiration: There Is Someone…
There is someone I love, even though I don’t approve of what he does. There is someone I accept, though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive, though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is me.
—C. S. Lewis
Sunday Inspiration: To Be Amazed
Our goal should be to live in radical amazement, [to] get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
—Abraham Heschel
Sunday Inspiration: Why Be Human?
Why kiss your wife, when you both know you love her? Why tell great jokes to old friends who’ve heard them before? Why take your daughter to lunch on her birthday, when you’re going to have supper together anyway? What the fool is really saying is, “Why be human, when you can be a jerk instead?”
—Robert Capon
Sunday Inspiration: Humility
Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate.
—St. John Climacus
Sunday Inspiration: A Space
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
—Viktor Frankl
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