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All the people witnessed the thunder and lightning, the blare of the horn and the mountain smoking; and when the people saw it, they fell back and stood at a distance. “You speak to us,” they said to Moses, “and we will obey; but let not God speak to us, lest we die.” Moses answered…

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you’ll help them to become what they are capable of becoming. –Goethe

A zealous Christian who was trying to convert a Hindu found himself getting nowhere. “The thing is,” argued the frustrated Christian, “you have to be born again!” “But I have been born again!” insisted the Hindu. “And again and again and again …”

John 4:27-42 27 Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, 29 “Come and…

[27] And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? [28] The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, [29] Come, see a man, which told me…

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Death was decreed for all, so that men may not be righteous just for the sake of life. –Jonathan ben Eleazar, Jewish scholar of the third century, Palestine Reprinted from ‘A Treasury of Jewish Quotations,’ edited by Joseph L. Baron, Jason Aronson Inc.

The love of God is like the Amazon river flowing down to water one daisy. –Unknown

Half the spiritual life consists in remembering what we are up against and where we are going. -Ayya Khema, “When the Iron Eagle Flies” Copyright Wisdom Publications 2001. Reprinted from “Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations,” edited by Josh Bartok, with permission of Wisdom Publications, 199 Elm St., Somerville MA 02144 U.S.A, www.wisdompubs.org.

The Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain, and the Lord called Moses to the top of the mountain and Moses went up. The Lord said to Moses, “Go down, warn the people not to break through to the Lord to gaze, lest many of them perish. The priests also,…

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