Past and future are the same, and we cannot change either, only know them more fully. My journey to the past had changed nothing, but what I had learned had changed everything, and I understood that it could not have been otherwise. If our lives are tales that Allah tells, then we are the audience as well as the players, and it is by living these tales that we receive their lessons. Ted Chiang
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  1. Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.

  2. Stand firm in the Lord. Stand firm and let Him fight your battle. Do not try to fight alone.

  3. Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

  4. Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light.

  5. I'm only a tool, beloved. Not your Savior

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