Darrell J. Pursiful

Sunday Inspiration: Neighbor

Neighbor is not a geographic term. It is a moral concept.
—Rabbi Joachim Prinz

Sunday Inspiration: Finish Each Day

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sunday Inspiration: Running the Opposite Direction

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, —he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
—C. S. Lewis

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

Sunday Inspiration: Avoiding Wrong Notes

The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be.
—Pete Seeger

Sunday Inspiration: Heroes

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
—Bob Dylan

Sunday Inspiration: God Protect Me

May God protect me from gloomy saints.
—Saint Teresa de Ávila

Sunday Inspiration: Great Teachers

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
—John Steinbeck

Sunday Inspiration: All the Earth’s Children

Was the earth made to preserve a few covetous, proud men to live at ease; or was it made to preserve all her children?
—Gerrard Winstanley

Sunday Inspiration: The Most Improper Job

The most improper job of any man, even saints, is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
—J. R. R. Tolkien

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