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"I warned myself against the danger of compassion in this case. How easy it would be to imagine the traumas of childhood that might have deformed her into the moral monster she had become, and then to convince myself that those traumas could be balanced - and their effects reversed - by sufficient acts of kindness."
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"The difficulties of people should be our business."
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"So bring me this man, trembling and shivering from head to foot; let me fall into his arms or down at his knees; he will weep and we shall weep, he will be eloquent and I shall be comforted, and my heart shall melt into his, he will take my soul, and I his God.But what is this kindly old gentleman to me? And what am I to him? Just one more member of the race of unfortunates, one more shade to go with the many he has seen, one more figure to add to his total of executions."
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"When you have reached your own room, be kind to those who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall. If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house."
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"Find out the needs of the people you are ministering to and help them overcome their fears."
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"Love is not only one of the greatest blessings in your personal life, but when it is extended professionally, the possibilities are endless."
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"To demonstrate the deeds of the kingdom is to love and understand the deeds."
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"I never heard weeping like that before or after; not from a child, nor a man wounded in the palm, nor a tortured man, nor a girl dragged off to slavery from a taken city. If you heard the woman you most hate in the world weep so, you would go to comfort her. You would fight your way through fire and spears to reach her. And I knew who wept, and what had been done to her, and who had done it."
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"True compassion does not sit on the laps of renovation; it dives with an approach to reconstruction. Don't throw a coin at a begger. Rather, destroy his source of poverty."
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"We glorify God when we appreciate humans."
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"For agnosticism is, in a sense, what I am preaching. I do not wish to reduce the sceptical element in your minds. I am only suggesting that it need not be reserved exclusively for the New Testament and the Creeds. Try doubting something else."
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"Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished."
Companionship
"How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death."
Aging
"Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system."
Reform
"None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light."
Salvation
"...up to no good-and pleased about it."
Playfulness
"You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb."
Character
"If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown."
Psychology
"Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages."
Communication
"Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires..."
Morality
"You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do."
Responsibility
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