A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he … - Arthur Miller

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When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.

Arthur Miller

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

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The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.

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When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.

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God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps that's a form of sin you've never considered - the sin of staying in the wrong job. But God did not place you on the earth to waste away your years in labor that does not employ his design or purpose for your life, no matter how much you may be getting paid for it.

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Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.

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What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.

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Ultimately though, we are not responsible for another's happiness. The unhappy person almost always suffers from self-inflicted pain.

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