“If someone who loves you gives you a beautiful and valuable gift, how do you handle it? To treat it with contempt is to treat the giver with contempt. If you value it, you admire it, look after it; you do not disdain it; you respect it and are grateful. The damage to our planet stems from the loss of this awareness of gratitude.”
― Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future
― Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future
“Amputating history can make us lose our memory, which is one of the few remedies we have against repeating the mistakes of the past. A free people is a people that remembers, is able to own its history rather than deny it, and learns its best lessons.”
― Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future
― Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future
“Being made in His image we have within us the capacity to know Him.”
― The Pursuit of God
― The Pursuit of God
“To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.”
― Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
― Algorithms To Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
“We are born, beloved creatures of our Creator, God of love, into a world that has lived long before us. We belong to God and to one another, and we are part of creation. And from this understanding, grasped by the heart, must flow our love for each other, a love not earned or bought because all we are and have is unearned gift.”
― Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future
― Let Us Dream: The Path to a Better Future
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