It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
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I have always found that actively loving saves one from a morbid preoccupation with the shortcomings of society.
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When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
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For our Lord suffered. And I come to believe that he suffered, not to save us from suffering, but to teach us how to bear suffering. For he knew that there is no life without suffering.
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The only way in which one can make endurable man’s inhumanity to man.
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The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.
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Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end.
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The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator.
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Happy the eyes that can close
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For mines are for men, not for money. And money is not something to go mad about, and throw your hat into the air for.
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It is not permissible to add to one’s possesions if these things can only be done at the cost of other men.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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But what do they help if one seeks for counsel, for one cries this, and one cries that, and another cries something that is neither this nor that.
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