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Sunday Inspiration: Living in the Present
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
—Lao Tzu
Sunday Inspiration: Truth Bursts Through
If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.
—Émile Zola
Sunday Inspiration: Miracles
The whole world is a series of miracles, but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.
—Hans Christian Andersen
Sunday Inspiration: Ego
if you measure
the length
of your ego,
it will equal
the distance
between you
and your freedom
—Yung Pueblo
Sunday Inspiration: What We Do Not Do
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
—Molière
Sunday Inspiration: True Ignorance
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
—Karl Popper
Sunday Inspiration: I Have One Life
I have one life and one chance to make it count for something… My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
—Jimmy Carter
Sunday Inspiration: Humility
If we wish to acquire humility, we must ask God to send us someone who will offend us.
—Saint Dorotheos of Gaza
Sunday Inspiration: Love Has Got to Stop Whispering
Hate has talked so loudly for so long. Greed has talked so loudly for so long. Liars have talked so loudly for so long. Love has got to stop whispering.
—Marianne Williamson
Sunday Inspiration: Appreciation
I believe that appreciation is a holy thing—that when we look for what’s best in a person we happen to be with at the moment, we’re doing what God does all the time. So in loving and appreciating our neighbor, we’re participating in something sacred.
—Fred Rogers
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