Darrell J. Pursiful

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

Sunday Inspiration: Reading

Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
—Jean Rhys

Sunday Inspiration: Limitless Power

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
—Howard Thurman

Sunday Inspiration: An Open Mind

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
—Mark Twain

Sunday Inspiration: Thinking

Thinking is difficult. That’s why most people judge.
—Carl Jung

Sunday Inspiration: Six Mistakes

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero

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