Darrell J. Pursiful

Sunday Inspiration: The Right Time

The time is always right to do what is right.
—Martin Luther King Jr.

Sunday Inspiration: Nothing Is Permanent

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world—not even our troubles.
—Charlie Chaplin

Sunday Inspiration: To Do Good

We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I do not know.
—Matthew Arnold

Sunday Inspiration: Changing Oneself

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
—Leo Tolstoy

Sunday Inspiration: Genius

Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.
—Arthur Schopenhauer

Sunday Inspiration: Now

Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly now. Love mercy now. Walk humbly now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it.
—Rabbi Tarfon

Sunday Inspiration: Humility

It’s a universal law—intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility.
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Sunday Inspiration: Hate

Hate: It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.
—Maya Angelou

Sunday Inspiration: The Essence of a Person

Never confuse the person, formed in the image of God, with the evil that is in him: because evil is but a chance misfortune, an illness, a devilish attack. But the very essence of the person is the image of God, and this remains in him despite every disfigurement.
—Saint John of Kronstadt

Sunday Inspiration: Humility

Virtue without humility is not virtue.
—Saint Pachomios of Chios

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