When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
ALAN PATONAlthough nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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Although nothing has come yet, something is here already.
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When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house.
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But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.
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Forgive us all, for we all have trespasses.
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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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Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal.
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Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.
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St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.
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One thing is about to be finished, but here is something that is only begun. And while I live it will continue
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People hurry home past him, to places safe from danger.
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I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.
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Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom.
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For it is the dawn that has come, as it has come for a thousand centuries, never failing.
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die?…
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Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools.
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