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" The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God. "

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" Prayer is our invitation to God to intervene in the affairs of earth. It is our request for Him to work His ways in this world. "

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" An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. "

" If God dropped acid, would he see people? "

" Every creature is a word of God. "

" For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women. "

" If you tell God no because He won't explain the reason He wants you to do something, you are actually hindering His blessing. But when you say yes to Him, all of heaven opens to pour out His goodness and reward your obedience. What matters more than material blessings are the things He is teaching us in our spirit. "

" This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer. "

" No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief. "

" At Baptism, I received grace - that quality that makes me share in the very nature of God. "

" If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble. "

" Why did the earthquake and tsunami occur in Japan? Was it the act of an angry God? No, it was the result of the movement and collision of the earth's tectonic plates - a process driven by the earth's need to regulate its own internal temperature. Without the process that creates earthquake, our planet could not sustain life. "

" A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. "

Carl Sandburg

Life

God

" Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community. "

" I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy. "

" God always strives together with those who strive. "

" I have had a happy life and thank the Lord. Goodbye and may God bless all! "

Christopher McCandless

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Life

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" There is no limit to the potential of brethren working together in complete brotherhood and selflessness toward spiritual goals. The power of God working through such channels will bring unimaginable blessings to all concerned. "

" The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through. "

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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" Whenever I'm confused about something, I ask God to reveal the answers to my questions, and he does. "

" The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him. "

" Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope. "

" Love is the greatest gift that God has given us. It's free. "

" Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. "

" Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants. "

" The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think. "

" I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to. "

" Passion without purpose is kind of pointless. I think God gives us the vision and wisdom to help enforce what he sees for us. You don't just sit at home and end up on 'Empire.' "

" It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. "

" I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life... whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal. "

" You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing. "