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The only difference between a wish and a prayer is that you're at the mercy of the universe for the first, and you've got some help with the second.

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Prayer is like water - something you can't imagine has the strength or power to do any good, and yet give it time and it can change the lay of the lan...more

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You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

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You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit. Even the Lord's Prayer sa...more

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If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the g...more

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Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.

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I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who lov...more

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The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the s...more

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I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonp...more

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It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we ...more

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And I remembered something else that makes us human: faith, the only weapon in our arsenal to battle doubt.

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Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the...more

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A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.

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Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

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If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?