Love is a choice-not simply or necessarily a rational choice but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.

Carter Heyward
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  1. Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about where we shall land, but rather on the belief that we shall land.

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