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Resurrection fresco in S.Saviour in Chora Istanbul
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A
Human Approach to World Peace
by
Tenzin
Gyatso The 14th Dalai Lama
"For
renewal of human values and attainment of lasting happiness, we need to
look to the common humanitarian heritage of all nations the world over"
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A thought from
Prem
Rawat
sent by visitor R Marsh
"As
human beings, we need to be in peace. People say, "Peace is not
possible. To me, where there is a will there is a way"
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A week of Prayer in Lancing
and Sompting from Father
Tony Lovegrove at Holy Family Catholic Church, Lancing
"join
Christians here as we prayed that the love of God revealed through Jesus
His Son will change our community"
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‘All Faith Room’ has been opened at Sussex Police Headquarters
sent
by website visitor Dorothy at Sussex Jewish News
"We hope the All Faith Room will break down
barriers and encourage people from all faiths and backgrounds to work
together"
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Angels and Mortals
from Father Barry Carter, Vicar
of St Michael and All Angels, Lancing
"The story of St
Michael shows the angels involved in spiritual warfare—in the battle
between God and the forces of evil that oppose him"
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Becoming Human
by
Hermann Hesse
"The so-called “practical” man is always
wrong. The future, the idea, faith, is always right."
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Being unwanted by
Mother Teresa "I have come more and more to realise
that it is being unwanted that is the worst disease that any human being
can ever experience".
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Brother Roger of Taize ... a life
"Jews
and others fleeing the Gestapo heard about Taizé where Roger could help
them to escape. In 1942 he was himself denounced and only the fortunate
chance that he was away saved him from the concentration camps
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Commemoration Of Srebrenica Massacre
by Jack Straw
"We stand here to remember one of the darkest chapters in
Europe since 1945. We mourn the thousands killed here. And, as we
utterly condemn those responsible for the slaughter"
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Desiderata
by Max Ehrmann
sent
by website visitor Clair
"With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is
still a beautiful world"
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15 Things You Probably Never Knew or Thought
About sent by website visitor Jean Rolls
"Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before
they go to sleep"
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Fit For Life
by Catherine Larner
Health clubs which have hosted Alpha
courses have reported that people who attended who said they would never
have participated if the course had been held in a church premises, but
as it was held in their club they felt they could 'give it a go'.
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God Is Closer Than You
Think
by John Ortberg
"This picture
reminds us: God is closer than we think. He is never farther than a
prayer away"
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God is
always there
sent
Margaret Ashby at Sompting United Reformed
Church
"brilliance
of his light will shine on us once again as we journey along the road of
life"
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‘Good Shepherd Sunday"
from Father
Tony Lovegrove at Holy Family Catholic
Church, Lancing
"In talking
about leadership in terms of a shepherd Jesus highlights the qualities
of care, concern, courage and love"
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Good things...
from Pastor John at Lancing Tabernacle
Church
"Today in the town of David a Saviour has been born to you; he is Christ
the Lord." read
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Holocaust
Education Trust Speech
by Phil Woolas MP on 12 June 2006 at the Holocaust Educational Trust
dinner event, Lancaster House, London.
"The site of Bergen-Belsen as a young man
had a less immediate impact but what it did do was to temper my soul
with something which the Bishop of Manchester reminded me of recently at
a service when he said “it’s not the doubts of my flock that frighten me
but their certainties”
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“Jesus Christ Is For
Life, Not Just For Christmas.”
from Father Roger at S. James the Less Church
"It’s
a wonderful thing to be told that someone loves you. But it’s even
better to be shown it"
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Jewish Enclave created by
Stalin
from Doris at Sussex Jewish
News
"Over the years, ravaged by disease and the Great
Terror, as well as emigration to Israel, this area almost disappeared"
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Lists
by Jill Arrowsmith
"It was one of those
nasty moments that Christians have from time to time - the realisation
that you’ve been getting it all wrong, for years"
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Mahatma Gandhi
A Spiritual Revolutionary
by
Rev. Oommen
“Your
king is wearing more than double of what is needed, so I must go naked,
as he has robbed me of my clothes.”
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Her
contribution to humanity has long outlived the immense work she did in
her lifetime. The spirit of her work continues today by many educators
in many countries around the world"
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Not
Too Late for Afghanistan
by Nick Grono and Joanna Nathan
"International intervention in Afghanistan in 2001 was not an
altruistic whim. After all, the Afghan people had long been
abandoned to years of fratricidal civil war, followed by Taliban
rule, at the end of the Cold War.
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Oneness with God
by
Sadhu Sundar Singh
"When I
looked around, I couldn’t see anyone. I do not know who rescued me, but
in my heart, I know that it was the Master."
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‘Peace in your life is a possibility"
by Prem Rawat sent
by website visitor Ron Marsh
"This isn’t about
converting people; it’s about inverting people. This is about turning
within, and that’s where we can find it."
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Pol Pot's legacy of
horror by
Robert Templer
"When Cambodian refugees from his terror arrived in the
United States, some were blind. Doctors could find no physical reason
for their loss of sight, which seemed to have been caused by intense
trauma"
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Primo
Levi: Surviving the Holocaust by Nicholas Patruno
"the
ability to speak German increased one's slim chances of survival, or at
least it could help in prolonging one’s life"
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Relations Between Islam And The West: Perceptions And Realities
a speech by
Dr Kim Howells M.P.
"The reasons for action in Afghanistan and Iraq had nothing to do with
the faith of Islam but with the political and security issues that these
countries posed."
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Reverence For Life
by
Albert Schweitzer
"there
flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase, "Reverence
for Life." The iron door had yielded: the path in the thicket had become
visible”.
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Rich Christian In A World Of Need
by Mark Greene
"Some people are like flowers, they give because it’s in
their nature to give.” And when I meet people I ask myself do they smell
of Jesus? Have they known the deep, deep grace of God?"
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Room for Christ
by Dorothy Day
"For
he said that a glass of water given to a beggar was given to him. He
made heaven hinge on the way we act toward him in his disguise of
commonplace, frail, ordinary humanity."
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Saint Francis Of Assisi
by
Sri Swami Sivananda
"Francis was humble. He loved God's creatures. He loved birds and beasts.
He loved the depressed and the outcastes. He treated the birds, the
beasts and all beings as brothers and sisters."
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Address By President Nelson Mandela At
The Commemoration Of The Twentieth Anniversary Of Steve Biko's death
"It is these
brutes that he faced without flinching; and the true story of his last
moments we are only now starting to fathom."
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The Universal God
by Pete Broadbent
"If we serve
and follow the universal God, we shall want his name to be known in all
the world of faiths."
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Terminal Care
by
Roger Harper "You might think that the focus of a hospice is
on helping people to ‘die well’ but it is much more about helping people
to live well for the limited time they have."
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Termites by
Kurt Wullschleger
"Typical
American. Do I really believe that a material diversion will fill the
emptiness and change the course of Chi-Chi’s life?"
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The Christmas Good News...
from Father Roger at S. James the Less
"It
was God's choice, when he came among us as a human being, to be born
right in the middle of the mess of the world – homeless in a war-torn
world. like so many people today."
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The Cost Of His Discipleship
Dietrich Bonhoeffer 1906—1945
"The letters of
Dietrich Bonhoeffer from prison betray no tortured struggle or spirit of
rebellion. Rather, as the SS doctor who witnessed his death later
observed: "I have hardly ever seen a man so submissive to the will of
God."
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The Footsteps in the Sand
sent by site visitor Keith
"He noticed that many times along the path
of his life there was only one set of footprints. He also noticed that
it happened at the very lowest and saddest times of his life."
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The Hole in My House
by
Kendra Peters aged 16
"He was the only
person I ever felt really in tune with, someone who was vital and
irreplaceable to me."
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The Meaning of Advent
by Charles Moore "God's
coming is not only a matter of glad tidings but, first of all,
"frightening news for everyone who has a conscience."
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The Royal Road
by Thomas à Kempis
"There will always
be many who love Christ's heavenly kingdom, but few who will bear his
cross"
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Violence
as a way of achieving justice is both impractical and immoral
by Martin Luther King jnr.
"Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the
survivors and brutality in the destroyers."
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When God Seems
Unjust
by RT Kendall
"God says, "Look, I will have mercy on whom I will have
mercy, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious." He can do
that."
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Who Cares About Granny?
by Catherine Butcher
In England and Wales,
the 2001 census showed there were 9.4 million people aged 65 and over in
2001. This represents an increase of 51 per cent since 1961
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