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• it is not through sin that he opposes God. The Devil's strategy for our times is to make trivial human existence and to isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressure
  work demands, or economic anxieties. -- C. S. Lewi...
• and we must consider, that since -- unfortunately -- we are forced to live togethe
  he most important thing for us to remember is that the only way in which we can have any law at all is to have as little of it as possible....
• Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.
  -- Albert Schweitze...
• Let us not hold ourselves above our fellow human beings, no matter how great the disparity.
  To withhold your scorn is already beautiful. To see how we are all of one family is compassion....
• Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselve
  and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill....
• Marge: Well, I'm just shocked by this whole family.
  Whatever happened to good old-fashioned town pride?...
• It is so basic. A human being is an innocent part of nature.
  Our civilization has distorted this universal quality that allows us to feel at home in our skin....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....