Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.

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When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars. - Robert Breault

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Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

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Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.- Muhammad Ali

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You attract who you are being. When you work at being the type of person that you want to attract, you attract those kinds of people into your life. ― Roy T. Bennett

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The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.

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Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

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Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

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Life is finite, and while we're here, we can live in ways that align with our true selves, regardless of imposed rules or standards. ― Ramona

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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

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