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Of Mary Magdalene it is recorded that ‘she loved much.’ And the love that is strongest is often that which has suffered most.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

My experience with forgiveness is that it sort of comes spontaneously at a certain point and to try to force it, it’s not really forgiveness…

When I was seven years old: I’d come in here without thinking I need to do this, or I hope to gain something from this, it was just to be the music that you’re playing.

Angels are messengers of the divine… They’re holy beings of light.

Well, a loving God is the God of surprises. I’ve sometimes said God’s sense of humor is quite something, you know.

I have yet to meet a wise person who doesn’t know how to find some joy even in the midst of what is hard, and to smile and laugh easily, including at oneself.

A sense of humor is high on my list of virtues, in interplay with humility and compassion and a capacity to change when that is the right thing to do.

The Divine upon my right impels me to pull forever at the latch on Freedom’s gate. The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free.

Irony is a medicine, not only to lift and brighten others, but also ourselves…