"Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile."

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Source : Carter Heyward (1984). “Our Passion for Justice: Images of Power, Sexuality, and Liberation”

Carter Heyward

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“Whenever I travel I like to keep the seat next to me empty. I found a great way to do it. When someone walks down the aisle and says to you, "Is someone sitting there?" just say, "No one except the Lord."”
“Every one has his faults: but we do not see the wallet on our own backs.”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 265-67, Carmina, XXII. 20, 1922.
“The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.”

Source : Hannah Hurnard (2013). “Hinds Feet on High Places”, p.59, Simon and Schuster
“I'm afraid to do theater now.”
“You don't want no pie in the sky when you die, You want something here on the ground while you're still around.”
“I have never been in a violent movie or television show.”
“At 18, I guarded the parking lot at the Catholic church bingos. Now my dad made sure I could take care of myself. I carried a Smith and Wesson 357 magnum.”

Source : Susana Martinez RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.
“I regard it (the Constitution) as the work of the purest patriots and wisest statesman that ever existed, aided by the smiles of a benign Providence; it almost appears a "Divine interposition in our behalf... the hand that destroys our Constitution rends our Union asunder forever.”

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