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“Grace comes from outside, as a gift and not an achievement.”
― Philip Yancey, What's So Amazing About Grace?

“A misfortune is a blessing that has not yet been recognised.”
― Stephen Mitchell, Joseph and the Way of Forgiveness: A Story About Letting Go

“Don’t worry what people think now. Don’t ever work for popularity. Above all, don’t care what the newspapers say. What is important is that your decisions should be clear and stand up to history.” Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine”
― Richard Hough, Mountbatten: A Biography

“The reformation was a revolt, not against the principle of unity and catholicity, but against the privileged and oppressive monarchy of Rome.”
― John T. McNeill, Makers Of Christianity From Alfred Great To Schleiermacher

“I do what I can the moment I can.”
― Christine Bennett, Wind in the Sage

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make day to day are of such great importance.”
― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Who tricked you into believing another person was meant to complete you. When the most they can do is compliment.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“If you are not enough for yourself you will never be enough for someone else.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”
― Shashi Tharoor

“You are not called to convince anyone. You are simply called to be an open channel for the Spirit of God to flow through.”
― Corrie ten Boom, Tramp for the Lord

“Anger is what we feel when we're helpless.”
― Heather Morris, Cilka's Journey

“Harm comes to science not by people hoping to find a particular result but by people trying to suppress results that go against their hopes.”
― Douglas Axe, Undeniable: How Biology Confirms Our Intuition That Life Is Designed

“We don’t choose the light because we want to win - We choose it because it is the light.”
― Claudia Gray, Master and Apprentice

“Passions play a constitutive role in the sort
of practical reasoning that characterizes judgment.”
― Daniel J. Kapust, Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus

“Honour is not bestowed upon merit.”
― Sallust , Sallust's History of the War Against Jugurtha, and of the Conspiracy of Catiline: With a Dictionary and Notes (Classic Reprint)

“Not forgiving someone is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. ”
― Lisa Genova, Every Note Played

“The crippled child is not conscience of the handicap implied by his useless legs. Though often inconvenient or annoying, but he is confident that it will never prevent him from doing what he wants to do or being whatever he wishes to be. If he considers them a handicap its because he has been told they are. Children make no distinction between the one who's lame or the one who has use of all his limbs.”
― Alan Marshall , I Can Jump Puddles

“Any path can be a poor one if it goes blindly in one direction.”
― E.K. Johnston, Queen's Shadow

“All of the future exists in the past”
― CAPOTE, Otras voces, otros ámbitos

“I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling.”
― C. S. Lewis

“You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in pain - no matter how smart or accomplished - they cry, they yearn, they hurt. We all want the same things: comfort, love, and a peaceful heart”
― Mitch Albom, Have a Little Faith: a True Story

“We are designed to operate in community. We are better together. We need each other to do and be our best.”
― Darren Morton, Live More Happy

“Forgiveness also does not excuse or endorse the actions of others and imply it was or is OK. And it does not negate the consequences of the wrong.”
― Darren Morton, Live More Happy

“Love wasn’t an outfit you slipped in and out of when it suited you; it was your skin, your bones, your blood.”
― Valerie Valdes, Chilling Effect

“Whether people liked or loathed him, he [Octavian] was in many ways a puzzling and contradictory revolutionary. He was once of the most radical innovators Rome ever saw.”
― Mary Beard, SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome

“Libraries were full of ideas—perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.”
― Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass

“Remember…you always have a choice to be better. You always have a choice to pick the right path --- Even if that choice comes a little late.”
― Christie Golden, Dark Disciple

“There is nothing sweeter, gentler or softer than water. But water has the power to move mountains.”
― Claire Bertschinger, Moving Mountains

“If we care about changing the world, we must also look at changing our own lives challenging our greed and anger and nurturing our wisdom and compassion.”
― Claire Bertschinger, Moving Mountains

“By thinking globally, yet acting locally, each of us can and will make a difference.”
― Claire Bertschinger, Moving Mountains