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“Hope criticizes what is, hopelessness rationalizes it. Hope resists, hopelessness adapts.”
― William Sloane Coffin

“Grace means suddenly you’re in a different universe from the one where you were stuck, and there was absolutely no way for you to get there on your own.”
― Anne Lamott, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace

“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.”
― Brennan Manning

“The result is that much reading robs the mind of all elasticity, as the continual pressure of a weight does a spring, and that the surest way of never having any thoughts of your own is to pick up a book every time you have a free moment. The practice of doing this is the reason erudition makes most men duller and sillier than they are by nature and robs their writings of all effectiveness: they are in Pope's words: For ever reading, never to be read.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms