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John Quincy Adams: American Visionary

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“I was there and I thought my faith was strong. Authoritarianism is lack of faith = Lack of faith is authoritarianism.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

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“Forgive before they do, and nothing can get to you.”
― Matthew Edward Hall

tags: acceptance, anxiety, compassion, forgiveness, healing, inspirational, liberation, peace, resilience, trauma

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“The tree of which we are branches on, makes choices yesterday, by the choices we make today.”
― Matthew Edward Hall, San Mateo: Proof of The Divine

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“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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