Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering.. The love of God did not protect His own Son.. He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process.
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Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.
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Perhaps there really is a good that exists; for a century of darkness to be eschewed by a single flame; for a decade of evil done to the heart to be undone by simple and unplanned acts of kindness! There must be a goodness, after all! But we don't find it when we're looking for it; not in church, not in a cathedral, not even in our own homes! We find it when we've fallen down so hard, are downtrodden so low; and there is one true friend who picks us up; or one random person who takes us in! And we realize goodness was never in the places we thought it was! It was all along in the most humble of places: bound up in the heart of a true friend.
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Often, moreover, it is.. That aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness, the key to our equanimity in malevolent climes.
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Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you.
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There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.
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No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.
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However mean your life is, meet it and live it.
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May your life be filled, as mine has been, with love and laughter; and remember, when things are rough all you need is.. Chocolate.
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You might say something isn't proven until it's tested.. And the same could be said for the strength and the will of a person.
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When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.
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The greatest minds are like film, they take the negatives and develop themselves in darkness..
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Not all that come good, comes quietly. The most beautiful waves come CRASHING in!
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Affliction is a good man's shining time.
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You start with a darkness to move throughbut sometimes the darkness moves through you.
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