"Alms are an inheritance and a justice which is due to the poor and which Jesus has levied upon us."

-- Francis of Assisi

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“I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better life. I'm part of a majority and not a minority. My life has been a life of growth. If you're not growing, you're not going to understand real love. If you're not reaching out to help others then you're shrinking. My life has been active. I'm not a spectator”
“Let me tell you something: for hundreds of thousands of years, this kind of discussion would have been impossible to have, or those like us would have been having it at the risk of our lives. Religion now comes to us in this smiley-face, ingratiating way â€” because itâ€™s had to give so much more ground and because we know so much more. But youâ€™ve got no right to forget the way it behaved when it was strong, and when it really did believe that it had God on its side.”
“You can't just be in one thing and be comfortable in that one thing. You have to understand multiple things and how they all connect.”

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“J. Budziszewski is perhaps the clearest and most eloquent natural lawyer writing today. When reading his works I often find myself amazed by his insights and wondering, 'Why didnâ€™t I think of that?' And then it dawns on me, 'That's what C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton do to me as well.' The Line Through the Heart is another destination in J. Budziszewski's philosophical quest to lead his readers to the promised land of the good, the true, and the beautiful, to guide us to that place where we have always been but can't seem to find.”
“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
“As much as you love to finish games and all that kind of stuff, at the same time as a starting pitcher you hate to come out of a game where your closer has no margin for error, ... So at least with one guy on, Braden's got a little margin to make a mistake.”
“Died of wounds inflicted in error by his own troops at the battle of Chancellorsville during the US Civil War. Let us cross over the river and sit in the shade of the trees.”
“When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.”

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