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Christmas, when observed with the right spirit, still has the power to call miracles from Heaven to Earth. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#heaven #miracles #richelle #richelle-goodrich #spirit-of-christmas

For us she is not the iron lady. She is the kind, dear Mrs. Thatcher. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#iron #kind #lady #mrs #she

Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the human being who has faith in some force that holds dominion over all of us, and who is therefore conscious of his own limitations, power is not necessarily fatal. For those, however, who are unaware of any higher sphere, it is a deadly poison. For them there is no antidote. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#power #experience

I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds stories around sadistic and graceless plots, narratives that exist only to express His terror of a woman's power to choose who and how to love, to redefine love as she sees fit, not as God thinks it ought to be. The author is unworthy of His own characters. ↗

— Joe Hill

#characters #loss-of-faith #love #women #faith

The purpose that you wish to find in life, like a cure you seek, is not going to fall from the sky. ...I believe purpose is something for which one is responsible; it's not just divinely assigned. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#optimism #faith

Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love and our trust wherever you wander. Father. ↗

— Gail Carson Levine

#fathers-and-daughters #love #trust #faith

Of course I am not referring to those outburts of passions that drive us to do and say things we will later regret, that delude us into thinking we cannot life without a certain person, that set us quivering with anxiety at the mere possibility we might ever lose that person-a feeling that impoverishes rather than enriches us because we long to possess what we cannot, to hold on what we cannot. No. I speak of a love that brings sight to the blind. Of a love stronger than fear. I speak of a love that breathes meaning into life, that defies the natural laws of deterioration, that causes us to flourish, that knows no bounds. I speak of the triumph of the human spirit over selfishness and death. ↗

— Jan-Philipp Sendker

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I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#being #coming #crafting #each #excited

Because love was a light that wouldn't allow darkness to reign in his soul. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#inspirational #love #faith

I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me. ↗

— Bobby Farrelly

#call #done #extremely #gross-out #i