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With time and perspective we recognize that such problems in life do come for a purpose, if only to allow the one who faces such despair to be convinced that he really does need divine strength beyond himself, that she really does need the offer of heaven’s hand. Those who feel no need for mercy usually never seek it and almost never bestow it. Those who have never had a heartache or a weakness or felt lonely or forsaken never have had to cry unto heaven for relief of such personal pain. Surely it is better to find the goodness of God and the grace of Christ, even at the price of despair, than to risk living our lives in a moral or material complacency that has never felt any need for faith or forgiveness, any need for redemption or relief. ↗

— Jeffery R. Holland

#inspirational #mercy #faith

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #faith

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#inspirational #perseverance #striving #success #faith

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspiration #life #sorrow #wisdom #worry

The road to enlightenment is long and difficult, and you should try not to forget snacks and magazines. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#enlightenment #humor #inspirational #road #faith

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#faith #god #inspirational #revenge #faith

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously. ↗