Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes what it was designed to be.
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God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.
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Easter may seem boring to children, and it is blessedly unencumbered by the silly fun that plagues Christmas. Yet it contains the one thing needful for every human life: the good news of Resurrection.
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Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.
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People just don't realize how much peer pressure, the desire for peer acclamation, influences them.
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I was raised in a nominal Roman Catholic home, but without any really strong faith there.
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