“Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think
not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled
potential...
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
“Distrustful souls see only
darkness burdening the face of the earth. We prefer instead to reaffirm all our
confidence in our Savior who has not abandoned the world which he redeemed...
The church best answers its critics when it remembers that its mission is to
preach hope, not fear."
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"There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love." 1 John 4:18 - New International Version
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The least trustworthy impulse in human nature is fear. On those occasions when fear is justified, great spirits rise above it, to the point of welcoming martyrdom. http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/08/the-last-time-christians-had-balls-they.html
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There is not a conservative in America who doesn't encourage "the lesser angels of our nature." Back when Republicans were Republicans...
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
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"Love your enemies."
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Pacem in Terris
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