Mitch Albom - Creating Space to Make a Difference
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Risks of Faith offers for the first time the best of noted theologian James H. Cone’s essays, including several new pieces.
The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions. The door that slams shut, the plan that got sidetracked, the marriage that failed. Or that lovely poem that didn’t get written because someone knocked on the door.
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way.
If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.
There is no gain without struggle.
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We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.