There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.
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Every heart that has beat strongly and cheerfully has left a hopeful impulse behind it in the world, and bettered the tradition of mankind.
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Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
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Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.
Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.