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"Do you often feel like parched ground, unable to produce anything worthwhile? I do. When I am in need of refreshment, it isn't easy to think of the needs of others. But I have found that if, instead of praying for my own comfort and satisfaction, I ask the Lord to enable me to give to others, an amazing thing often happens - I find my own needs wonderfully met. Refreshment comes in ways I would never have thought of, both for others, and then, incidentally, for myself."
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"Compassion brings us closer to each other."

"To commune with God is to understand love because God is love."

"Jesus was never indifferent to the issues of the people in His day."

"It is better to do little things with love than big things without love."

"When we harm others we harm ourselves, when we help others we help ourselves."

"Jesus Christ is the Father of Fatherless."

"One of the greatest things you can learn in life is to be compassionate, and true compassion includes compassion for yourself."

"Nothing on earth is as unbearable as dealing with other people if you are a person who lacks compassion and understanding."

"Accept each other's fault with brotherly love."

"For an outpour of love there is always a first partaker."
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"Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes."

"We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give me, receiving with both hands and with all my heart whatever that is."

"Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God."

"Must we always comment on life? Can it not simply be lived in the reality of Christ's terms of contact with the Father, with joy and peace, fear and love full to the fingertips in their turn, without incessant drawing of lessons and making of rules?"

"We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others."

"Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from suffering. The love of God did not protect His own Son. He will not necessarily protect us - not from anything it takes to make us like His Son. A lot of hammering and chiseling and purifying by fire will have to go into the process."

"I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminatory 'making out' and 'sleeping around,' we forfeit something we cannot well do without. There is dullness, monotony, sheer boredom in all of life when virginity and purity are no longer protected and prized."
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