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One who loves his community destroys community; one who loves its members builds community.


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Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.

Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.



The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.

The person who’s in love with their vision of community will destroy community. But the person who loves the people around them will create community everywhere they go.



Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.



Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.

Silence in the face of evil is evil itself.



Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.



We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.

We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.



We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.

We are not to simply bandage the wounds of victims beneath the wheels of injustice, we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.



Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.

Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.



The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.



Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.





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I’d rather live one year with Love, Peace & Joy, than live 10 years with Worry, Anxiety & Hatred. It is not how long I live but how well I live.



Memories can sometimes be more powerful than the present.

Memories can sometimes be more powerful than the present.




When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, don’t afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw.

When you’re looking for a needle in a haystack, don’t afraid to burn the haystack to save yourself from spending half your life picking through strands of straw.



The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.

The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem.



I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain.

I've got life, I've got love, I've got faith & that's enough. We feel sorrow we feel pain, but there's sunshine after rain.



I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.

I'm a 7 o'clock act. My people want to go to a show, a dinner and then go home and go to bed.



We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.

We do not strive for spectacular actions. What counts is the gift of yourself, the degree of love you put into each of your deeds.



"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)

"Gutta cavat lapidem." (Dripping water carves a stone.)



You belong wherever you want to belong.

You belong wherever you want to belong.




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