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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
Sunday Inspiration: Hope
Hope just means another world might be possible, not promised, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.
—Rebecca Solnit
Sunday Inspiration: When You’re Wrong
Admit when you’re wrong. Shut up when you’re right.
—John Gottman
Sunday Inspiration: The Light that Is You
Do not be dismayed by the brokenness of the world. All things break. And all things can be mended. Not with time, as they say, but with intention. So go. Love intentionally, extravagantly, unconditionally. The broken world waits in darkness for the light that is you.
—L. R. Knost
Sunday Inspiration: People Who Have Come Alive
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
—Howard Thurman
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