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"Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble."
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"I don't know why everyoneis still trying to find out whether heaven and hell exist.Why do we need more evidence?They exist here on this very Earth.Heaven is standing atop Mount Qasiounoverlooking the Damascene sightswith the wind carrying Qabbani'sdulcet words all around you.And hell is only four hours away in Aleppo where children's cries drown out the explosions of mortar bombsuntil they lose their voice,their families, and their limbs.Yes, hell certainly does existright now, at this moment,as I pen this poem. And all we're doingto extinguish this hellfireis sighing, shrugging, liking, and sharing.Tell me: what exactly does that makeus? Are we any better than the gatekeepers of hell?"
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"It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake."
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"Even the world's greatest actor cannot fake an erection."
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"As soon as I sat down across from her, she ordered me to put the entire contents of my pants pockets on the table. I did as I was told, saying nothing. My reality seemed to have left me and was now wandering around nearby. I hope it can find me, I thought."
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"To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place."
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"If you desire to be financially wealthy but don't know how to invest time, then you are just dreaming."
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"You're here, I continued. "At least you look as if you're here. But maybe you aren't. Maybe it's just your shadow. The real you may be someplace else. Or maybe you already disappeared, a long, long time ago. I reach out my hand to see, but you've hidden yourself behind a cloud of probablys."
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"There are no free tickets in life, there is always some cost in one form or another."
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"Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men."
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"That's what's happening... zombies are out... but in hour movie... not in series."
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"Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime."
Faith
"If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old."
Wisdom
"When schools flourish, all flourishes."
Education
"For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver."
Nature
"To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer."
Spiritual
"Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good."
Philosophy
"The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for."
Religion
"The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God."
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"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has."
Faith
"This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified."
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