And with the Savior's passing came Satan's sure defeat Christ whispered, "It is finished, " for payment was complete. I could not earn salvation, it's been dispensed for free And mercy's gates would open, as He has died for me.
Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
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Clive Barker
Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving...
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Unknown
Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.
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Bell Hooks
In the end, it is our defiance that redeems us. If wolves had a religion — if there was a religion of the wolf — that it is what it would tell us.
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Mark Rowlands
Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100, 000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100, 000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I'll take 100, 000. <span...
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Christopher Hitchens
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We like to think we're in control but we never are.
How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.
Life did come with a manual.
Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.
If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.
