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“Worship, then, is about what we are prepared to relinquish—what we give up at personal cost.”
― Terryl L. Givens, The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Quest for Faith

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“Faith is a strange creature,” Schuster said. “Like a falcon that nests year after year in the same place, but then flies away, sometimes for years, only to return again, stronger than ever.”
― Mark T. Sullivan, Beneath a Scarlet Sky

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“How could the world be freed from the terrible dilemma of conflict, on the one hand, and psychological and social dissolution, on the other? The answer was this: through the elevation and development of the individual, and through the willingness of everyone to shoulder the burden of Being and to take the heroic path.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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“But what if we saw lessons and talks as connections to the sacrament rather than as unrelated secondary activities? What if we saw them as opportunities to bear with one another in all our infirmities and ineptitude?”
― Terryl L. Givens, The Crucible of Doubt: Reflections on the Quest for Faith

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“That’s to encourage her, in everything she wants courageously to do, but to include in that genuine appreciation the fact of her femininity: to recognize the importance of having a family and children and to forego the temptation to denigrate or devalue that in comparison to accomplishment of personal ambition or career. It’s not for nothing that the Holy Mother and Infant is a divine image—as we just discussed. Societies that cease to honour that image—that cease to see that relationship as of transcendent and fundamental importance—also cease to be.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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