Spreading the Light
“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” – Edith Wharton
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The Soul Within Me
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.” – Frederick Douglass
Continue reading →The Christian Life is a Battle
“The Christian life, then, is a battle, so sharp and full of danger that effort can nowhere be relaxed without loss.” – Huldrych Zwingli
Continue reading →Withdrawing From a Friend
“I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.” – Thomas Jefferson
Continue reading →Excellence and Perfection
“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.” – Michael J. Fox
Continue reading →Manmade Differences Between Human Beings
“Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.” – Maya Angelou
Continue reading →Think Traditional and Progressive
“We should not try to be purely traditional or purely progressive in our thinking. We need both. We need the firm foundation that traditional thinking brings so we have something solid to build on. We need progressive thinking so that … Continue reading →
A Moral Society
“The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Continue reading →Equally Wise and Foolish
“Before God, we are all equally wise, and equally foolish.” – Albert Einstein
Continue reading →God Writes the Gospel
“God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.” – Martin Luther
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