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It is God that worketh in you, both to will and to do of His good pleasure. It is as though He said, ‘Learn to live in your will, not in your feelings.’ –Amy Carmichael

Compassion is characterized as promoting the aspect of allaying suffering. Its function resides in not [enduring] others’ suffering. It is manifested as non-cruelty. Its proximate cause is to see helplessness in those overwhelmed by suffering. It succeeds when it makes cruelty subside, and it fails when it produces sorrow. -Buddhaghosa, “Visuddhimagga” From “365 Buddha: Daily…

When a man strikes his slave, male or female, with a rod, and he dies there and then, he must be avenged. But if he survives a day or two, he is not to be avenged, since he is the other’s property. When men fight, and one of them pushes a pregnant woman and a…

Speak when you’re angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret. –Lawrence J. Peter

Signs You’re the Reincarnation of Someone Famous… -During a thunderstorm, you build a giant boat and start stealing your neighbor’s pets. -When the boss criticizes your work, you hack off your right ear and mail it to him. -Not only do you consider Yoko an artistic genius, you think she’s beautiful and has a lovely…

John 4:43-54 43 When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee 44 (for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country). 45 When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at…

[43] Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. [44] For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. [45] Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also…

“Please help us pray to accept the infertility issue in our lives.” –from Beliefnet member BelieversInGod Add your prayers now

When you cannot love or hate any more, then where is the charm of life? –Arthur Schnitzler, “Professor Bernhardi” Reprinted from ‘A Treasury of Jewish Quotations,’ edited by Joseph L. Baron, Jason Aronson Inc.

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, ‘The old is good.’ –Luke 5:38-39 (Revised Standard Version)

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