My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful process of learning to let go of things not essential.
Category: Inspirational
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We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God?s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did
The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush against goodness for a season.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of