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“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
― C.S. Lewis

“Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin”
― Jonathan Sacks

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Just as the natural environment depends on biodiversity, so the human environment depends on cultural diversity, because no one civilization encompasses all the spiritual, ethical and artistic expressions of mankind.”
― Jonathan Sacks, The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

“Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.”
― Victor Hugo

“Of all treasures of knowledge, the most vital is the knowledge of God, his existence, powers, love, and promises.”
― Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle

“O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.”
― Spencer W. Kimball, Faith Precedes the Miracle

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
― Pindar.

“Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing.”
― Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl