I have faith that the illusions we currently hold about who we are will not sustain us. I trust humanity will arrive at a collective truth and a deep remembering that will inform us in recreating our world.
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Related At this point we are comfortable with our relationship with the CDC and confident that they will inf... KATHERINE ANDRUS It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself ev... GORDON B. HINCKLEY Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo... WINSTON CHURCHILL Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo... WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Let us find someone who will never break our heart, who will always be there for us, who will make u... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON It is the information we have that will determine who will hold a dominant position in this world SUNDAY ADELAJA My prayer today is that we will feel the loving arms of God wrapped around us, and will know in our ... BILLY GRAHAM We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are an... JOE PATERNO Women have been taught that, for us, the earth is flat, and that if we venture out, we will fall off... ANDREA DWORKIN It is going to put us at a different level - the challenge will be whether we can sustain that. EDDIE MBALO As much respect as I have for Indiana, they're good. They're not significantly better than we are. A... STEVE FISHER O how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole w... PHILIP II Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole... SHIV KHERA For a believer, Christian faith is true to the human heart, not in the sense that any old thing we f... FRANCIS SPUFFORD For most of us, the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become s... JOHN ORTBERG Trust means that they will never throw our pain and vulnerabilities in our face. Trust means we know... CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everyth... RONALD REAGAN When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting u... JOSHUA HARRIS There are no guarantees in life, but I believe faith provides all of us with a foundation to live th... GRETCHEN CARLSON I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins. ALVEDA KING Death frightens us. When we see another person die, we are reminded that we are also mortal, that so... R.C. SPROUL When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will... RICHARD ROHR TRUTH." "Maybe there is a universal truth embedded in everyone's soul. Maybe we all have the sa... DAN BROWN Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a ... PAULO COELHO If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM We cannot sustain the mistakes that we made, and I will not allow it, LES MILES We have no assurance that half-truth will make us free. ROGER J. WILLIAMS It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity... CHINUA ACHEBE The truth is that when it comes to suffering, if we do not go to our graves in confusion, we will no... TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN Eventually we'll forget the past, the reason we cried and who caused us pain. We will finally move o... MAHMOUD EL HALLAB I am beginning to believe that we know everything, that all history, including the history of each f... SUSAN GRIFFIN We have to hope that the people who love us and who know us a little bit will in the end have seen u... ALI SMITH We are not the ones who will achieve success and put this world to shame. God will do this through u... SUNDAY ADELAJA To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to tr... JUNE JORDAN When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... CRAIG GROESCHEL Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are... NEIL GAIMAN There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to o... ROBERT D. HALES Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, today and today and... JERRY SPINELLI God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our... WALTER MARTIN I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We shouldn't be seeking the respect of an unjust system that will not respect us on the basis of our... MYCHAL DENZEL SMITH We have 17 exponents currently training with us. Three will be dropped. JULIAN CHIN We are there peacefully. We are there unarmed and it will remain that way. We will not break the ord... DAWN SMITH Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it i... JULIA CAMERON If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Faith will get us through today; trust and you shall overcome. SCOTTIE SOMERS A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secre... RALPH WALDO EMERSON We all have the opportunity to be beautiful people...we just live in a corrupt world that will try a... ZOE GREEN Feast of Lawrence, Deacon at Rome, Martyr, 258 Unless we look upon ourselves as called to unity, ... F. D. MAURICE Our feelings of separation from God will diminish as we become more childlike before Him. That is no... HENRY B. EYRING Do not follow me! Let's just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I'll be me, t... JERRY SPINELLI The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us. BILLY GRAHAM Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment help us to change and send... PAULO COELHO We will be losing families who have contributed to our communities, ... We will be losing part of ou... DAVID GUDGEL As we intend to hold our council at the Huron village, that is near the British, we may probably mak... TECUMSEH I don't see how any degree of faith can exclude the dismay, since Christ's faith did not save Him fr... C.S. LEWIS Our restlessness in this world seems to indicate that we are intended for a better. We have all of u... ROBERT SOUTHEY At some point in our lives we make a decision, he thought, a choice that, though we don't understand... ANTTI TUOMAINEN But we can also ask for something we are much more likely to get, and that is to find a person or tw... LEMONY SNICKET I have been on the other side of that mystique (wrestling for Brandon) and a couple of our kids have... DENNIS KITKO I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings of old. Things that we have heard... BIBLE And as for our future, one will hardly find us again on the paths of those Egyptian youths who endan... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I think we will need more troops then we currently have to secure the elections process in Iraq -- t... JOHN ABIZAID Each of us will have our own Fridays—those days when the universe itself seems shattered and the s... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I think our defense is clearly ahead of where our offense is right now. We recognize that we have a ... DAVE SHONDELL I am an optimist about the UK. We have been involved in trade with our European partners, which we w... IAIN DUNCAN SMITH Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. Y... SRI CHINMOY I have been learning a great deal about the need to let go of our fears and truly trust the Lord. Wh... LAURA LANE We are looking at a very difficult future. All of us will have to start again from scratch, and I do... GHULAM VHORA Human potential is amazing...We have the capacity to create a world that is peaceful...one that spre... KRISTI BOWMAN The more others encounter us honoring the boundaries we have set for our lives, the more they will k... DANNY SILK That's our goal, and we have set in motion a process that will get us there. TRENT LOTT It's through the darkness that deep healing comes to enlighten us. Don't be afraid of the dark and k... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES We feel like we are very fortunate to be in this situation. We don't know what next year will hold f... ALISON DAVIS I know better than to not trust God. But sometimes, I forget that. When we are in the midst of an ex... MELODY BEATTIE If we do not rise to the challenge of our unique capacity to shape our lives, to seek the kinds of g... NENA O'NEIL There are many voices in the world. The social environment will try to mould us in the image and lik... DRAGOS BRATASANU Here. Here I am. You've taken everything from us, but not who we are! We still exist! One day g... BRUNO APITZ God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and canno... ELISABETH ELLIOT I submit that those who run the American military at the top, and those whose boots are on the groun... PETE DOMENICI I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the tru... ADLAI E. STEVENSON II In the end, life is about collecting experiences and looking for the lesson and blessing in each one... SUZY KASSEM We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but... MORTIMER ADLER When we know that His plans are to prosper us and give us hope and future, we bow down at once to th... JOSHUA STANNARD I love the way dates in a text make us think that truth will follow. BEN MARCUS If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trus... RAINER MARIA RILKE The season of the world before us will be like no other in the history of mankind. Satan has unleash... VAUGHN J. FEATHERSTONE The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil... EDITH HAMILTON We have a great climate. We are the only such state that is not growing. Our demographics are marked... ELLIOT STONECIPHER Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in ... نزار قباني If we will walk humbly with our God, He will lead us by the hand to exactly who and what we need, to... MATTHEW KELLY For us it is not a surprise that Jiri is not on our team. We still have a strong team, we play at ho... CYRIL SUK We are all equally capable of spiritual awakening. It may not seem that way, at times. Some of us ar... VICTOR SHAMAS Men will clutch at illusions when they have nothing else to hold to. CZESłAW MIłOSZ One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our... RICHARD BACH Somebody once asked me if I have anything like faith, and I said I have faith in the narrative. I ha... JOSS WHEDON The world is filled with so many beautiful people after all and who am I to think that you will hold... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily... FREYA STARK Life is a journey filled with lessons, hardships, heartaches, joys, celebrations and special moments... SUSAN SAMAROO
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I like waiting on people. I just like to mak... AMY SEDARIS I'm not a good storyteller. I always think I'm going to get interrupted, or something's ... AMY SEDARIS People who shop in health food stores never look healthy. AMY SEDARIS I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But... AMY SEDARIS I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'... AMY SEDARIS More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ... AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus... AMY SEDARIS I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color. AMY SEDARIS If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway... AMY SEDARIS You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto... AMY SEDARIS Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ... AMY SEDARIS But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty. AMY SEDARIS My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him. AMY SEDARIS When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel... AMY SEDARIS Books are challenging and inspirational to me. AMY SEDARIS I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop. AMY SEDARIS I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ... AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge... AMY SEDARIS I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ... AMY SEDARIS We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people. AMY SEDARIS My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m... AMY SEDARIS I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life. AMY SEDARIS I got this second chance at life, and I live it. AMY PURDY Smart people often talk trash about happiness and worse than trash about books on happiness, and the... AMY BLOOM People tend to forget that in our country, we'd pretty much all be immigrants, except for the Na... AMY BLOOM