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Random Thought No. 2: Social media has proven to be my go-to place for the inner monologue that continues nonstop in my brain. This is probably a lousy idea; I already go offline when the monologue takes a dark turn, which is where it’s headed at the moment. This is when it’s probably best to take a pen, a notebook and a nap until the monologue dies down.

“Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you do, and you will presently come to love him.”
—   C.S. Lewis

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“Let your prayer be completely simple. For both the publican and the prodigal son were reconciled to God by a single phrase.”
—   St. John Climacus

(Source: pampong)

“Love means loving the unlovable — or it is no virtue at all.”
—   G.K. Chesterton

(Source: lifeofahurricane, via christ-lives-in-us)

“You cannot save people. You can only love them.”
—   Anaïs Nin (via Swanfeather Songs)

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“The path to peace begins when I stop focusing on my hurts and others’ sins and start working on others’ hurt and my sins.”
—   Rick Warren

(Source: by-grace-of-god)

“Short sayings were not beneath Jesus. Using everyday objects was not beneath Jesus. If he can talk about the birds of the air, we can tweet.”
—   Fr. James Martin, S.J.

“Faith, precisely because it is a free act, also demands social responsibility for what one believes.”
—   Pope Benedict XVI

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