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Our life and how we find the world now and in the future is, almost totally, a simple result of what we have become in the depths of our being—in our spirit, will, or heart. From there we see our world and interpret reality.
“Do you want to know who you are, your strengths and weaknesses? Do you want to be a compassionate person who skillfully helps people who are hurting? Do you want to have such a profound trust in God that you are fortified against the disappointments of life? Do you want simply to be wise about how life goes? Those are four crucial things to have—but none of them are readily achievable without suffering.”
― Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
― Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
“Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Now that I look back, it seems to me that in all that deep darkness a miracle was preparing. So I am right to remember it as a blessed time, and myself as waiting in confidence, even if I had no idea what i was waiting for.”
― Gilead
― Gilead
“War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace." - Baba”
― The Kite Runner
― The Kite Runner
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