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It’s a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn’t about rights. It’s about responsibilities.”–Mr Bill Berkowitz

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Sometimes miracles occur only when you jump in.
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The Bible talks a lot about thankfulness, and I’m more thankful than I ever was. I try to concentrate on the hundreds of things that go right in a day, instead of the three or four that go wrong.
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I’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
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Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
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Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He’s wrathful, but at other times, He’s incredibly compassionate. He’s not a one-dimensional figure at all.
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More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
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I don’t believe that prayers actually change God’s mind – if there is a God – but I liked praying for people in need. It was like moral weightlifting. I tend to be self-obsessed, and it was nice to get out of my brain once in a while.
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Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that’s eating me alive.
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I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero.
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I was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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In trying to avoid one sin I’ve committed another.
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I found there were things about religion that I really loved; things like the sense of gratefulness that it brings.
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I thought religion would eventually wither away and we’d all be worshiping at the altar of science.
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Paintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
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Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
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I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
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It’s a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn’t about rights. It’s about responsibilities.”–Mr Bill Berkowitz

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It’s a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn’t about rights. It’s about responsibilities.”–Mr Bill Berkowitz

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