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“Compassion is the understanding of suffering,” Spirit replies. “There is no peace, joy, or hope until those who suffer are understood. Compassion is the soul of these words; without it, they are empty. Compassion fills them with truth,
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“God has made us for Himself, and our hearts can never know rest and perfect satisfaction until they find it in Him.”
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“There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. ”
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“The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again.”
― Cry, the Beloved Country
― Cry, the Beloved Country
“Once a heart breaks…it doesn’t just grow back. It’s not a lizard’s tail. It’s more like a huge stained glass that shattered into a million pieces, and it’s not going back together. Least not the way it was. You can mush it all into one piece, but that doesn’t make it a window. That makes it a pile of broken colored glass. Shattered hearts don’t mend and they don’t heal. They just don’t work that way.”
― The Mountain Between Us
― The Mountain Between Us
“But there is only one thing that has power completely, and this is love. Because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.”
― Cry, the Beloved Country
― Cry, the Beloved Country
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