"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing,
	 the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up." 

	 “Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”

	"Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use."  

	 "The world is not to be put in order; the world is order, incarnate. It is for us to harmonize with this order."

	 “Without risk, faith is an impossibility.”

	"Love the poor and love poverty, for it is by such love that we become truly poor.
	As the Scripture says, we become like the things we love. If you love the poor you
	will share their poverty and be poor like them. If you love the poor be often with
	them. Be glad to see them in your own home and to visit with them in theirs. Be glad
	to talk to them and be pleased to have them near you in church, on the street, and
	elsewhere. Be poor in conversing with them and speak to them as their companions do,
	but be rich in assisting them by sharing some of your more abundant goods with them."	 

	"The only thing we can offer to God of value is to give our love
	to people as unworthy of it as we are of God’s love."

		"Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.
		Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."

"There are times in life when the only proper response to the dreary and the difficult
is to ignore them. The person of hope, the person who knows that God is in the daily,
knows joy."

	"Christian faith truly lived results in a bonding with people everywhere.
	It is a living out of the prayer, 'OUR Father'."

	 	“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important
		as what you become by achieving your goals.”

	"Interesting that Freud considered that sexual satisfaction and happiness generally is reduced
	when access to sex is free and easy; and that the 'yield of pleasure' is greater when obstacles
	and constraints are placed in its way.  Perhaps the Arabs are a lot wiser about that than we
	Westerners are."

	"Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is.
	The way we cope with it is what makes the difference."

	"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort,
	but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

	"My concern is not whether God is on our side.
	My greatest concern is to be on God's side."

	Palm Sunday: "Today we join with other believers throughout the world and
	across the centuries in a celebration of joy."

	"In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems,
	for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same."

	"A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."	

	"Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."

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