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A bigot is a person who makes an idol of his commitments.


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In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

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It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.



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Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.



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Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.



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Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.



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During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.





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