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To forgive is to forfeit the high ground. I may no longer stand over you, better than you. We are touched by the God-given grave of being equal again. That’s because central to forgiveness is the recognition that all people possess flaws, weaknesses, even evil. Recognizing our own imperfections is a path toward leniency toward…

Jesus did not come to make God’s love possible, but to make God’s love visible. –Unknown

From contact comes feeling. From feeling comes reaction. This is what keeps us in the cycle of birth and death. Our reactions to our feelings are our passport to rebirth. -Ayya Khema, “Being Nobody, Going Nowhere” Copyright Wisdom Publications 2001. Reprinted from “Daily Wisdom: 365 Buddhist Inspirations,” edited by Josh Bartok, with permission of Wisdom…

Then the Lord said to Moses, “Hold out your arm over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat up all the grasses in the land, whatever the hail has left.” So Moses held out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord…

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present. –Lillian Eichler Watson

Three pastors were having lunch in a diner. One said “You know, ever since summer started, I’ve been having trouble with bats in my loft and attic at church. I’ve tried everything–noise, spray, cats–nothing seems to scare them away!” Another said “Yeah, me too. I’ve got hundreds living in my belfry and in the narthex…

John 6:30-33, 48-51 30 So they said to him, “What sign are you going to give us then, so that we may see it and believe you? What work are you performing? 31 Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’ ” 32…

[30] They said therefore unto him, What sign shewest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? [31] Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. [32] Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,…

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His revelation is continuous. New aspects of the Torah unfold constantly. The more we study it, the more it expands. –Judah Arieh, “Sefat Emet” Reprinted from ‘A Treasury of Jewish Quotations,’ edited by Joseph L. Baron, Jason Aronson Inc.

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