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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“Being Mistreated is the most important condition of mortality, for eternity itself depends on how we view those who mistreat us.”
― James L. Ferrell, The Peacegiver: How Christ Offers to Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“Righteousness is simply a humble understanding of how unrighteous one is coupled with a deep commitment to become better.”
― James L. Ferrell, The Peacegiver: How Christ Offers to Heal Our Hearts and Homes

“Anything that makes me feel better (or worse) than another is darkness; anything that makes me feel one with others is divine. So the natural instinct to try to lift others by helping them to feel good about themselves relative to others is exactly the wrong way to help. True happiness is found not in a belief that I am better but in the obliteration of any need to be.”
― James L. Ferrell, Falling to Heaven: The Surprising Path to Happiness

“You and I cannot possibly know the hidden pain eating holes in individual lives, so if we want to be saviors, in partnership with the Lord, we will be kind to everyone, everywhere, all of the time.”
― Virginia Pearce, A Heart Like His: Making Space for God's Love in Your Life

“I am blessed, personally, beyond measure, and yet oddly enough, I, too, struggle to feel His love for me every day. When I stack my obstacles against others' they seem to frivolous to be authentic. And yet, this mortal existence is designed by a genius, so that we all will, no matter our circumstances or parentage or gifts, have to exercise our agency to come to Him. And so though my problems may seem small to an outsider, they are big enough for me to desperately need Him.”
― Virginia H. Pearce, A Heart Like His: Making Space for God's Love in Your Life

“Yes. When I want to fill my heart with His love, I open my eyes to the creations of His hand, especially the ones that seem outrageously and uselessly beautiful--sunsets, sunrises, ice crystals, patterns in drying mud, golden cottonwood leaves against red rock cliffs, the melancholy sound of the first cricket in August, moss-covered rocks in a mountain stream, the way a baby laughs before she can do useful things such as talking or walking.”
― Virginia H. Pearce, A Heart Like His: Making Space for God's Love in Your Life

“In fact, for all of us it is this open-hearted affirmation that my life is the same as yours that moves us forward much faster than when we believe that others' lives are orderly and peaceful and only ours is chaotic and full of bumps.”
― Virginia H. Pearce, A Heart Like His: Making Space for God's Love in Your Life