There are few of us but who have been touched somehow by death. Some may not have been touched closely by it nor yet have kept vigil with it, but somewhere along our lives, most of us are sorely bereft of someone near and deeply cherished and all of us will some day meet it face to face.
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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.Richard L. Evans
I am thinking of the Danish sculptor of great fame, Thorvaldsen, who chose to be buried in the midst of his worknot in a cathedral or a cemetery, but in a museum among the monuments of his own making in the midst of his statuary and there what he made.
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Things I dont understand dont destroy my faith in the things I do understand.
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May I make two citations from the words of a discerning editorial writer, not one of my faith, but one of much faith 'If we neglect the divine ... and give ourselves over wholly to the human,' he said, 'we may certainly count upon nothing but the triumph of pessimism.... True optimism must rest upon a calm, unshakable faith in eternal life and in the unlimited goodness of him who gives it.'
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Be able to disagree, without being disagreeable. We must not let the things we cant do keep us from doing the things we can do.
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In answer to the question, 'Shouldn't the commandments be rewritten,' someone thoughtfully replied, 'No, they should be reread.'
Richard L. Evans
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