I used to feel afraid of the future, always assuming the worst. But now I've realized that my worst fears have already happened, and I've survived them! I've walked into the fire and made it out alive. Only the loss of a close loved one could have "woken me up" to reality in the same way. Elizabeth Berrien
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  3. If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. - Mother Teresa

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  1. We need faith and the mind of the Lord Jesus to recognize something of lasting value in even our most ordinary tasks.

  2. Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

  3. God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

  4. Change came from below, as it usually does, rather than being imposed from above.

  5. Power, no matter how well-intentioned, tends to cause suffering. Love, being vulnerable, absorbs it. In a point of convergence on a hill called Calvary, God renounced the one for the sake of the other.

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