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Sunday Inspiration: Resentment

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
—Carrie Fisher

Sunday Inspiration: All Things Can Be Mended

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: Saints and Sinners

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
—St. Augustine

Sunday Inspiration: Meeting Monsters

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we will keep trying to slay them in the outer world. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there we must do our work.
—Marianne Williamson

Sunday Inspiration: Gratefulness

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.
—David Steindl-Rast

Sunday Inspiration: Swept Off

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
—J. R. R. Tolkien

Sunday Inspiration: Fast or Far?

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
—African Proverb

Sunday Inspiration: Old Enough

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.
—C. S. Lewis

Sunday Inspiration: Laughter

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
—Charlie Chaplin

Sunday Inspiration: Courage

You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
—Mary Tyler Moore