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“Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.”

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Author:Geneen Roth

“Isaiah 55 provides an entirely different framework for thinking about God's justice, because it suggests that we have it backward - the mystery lies not in God's unfathomable wrath but in his unfathomable mercy. God's ways are higher than our ways because his capacity to love is infinitely greater than our own. Despite all that we do to alienate ourselves from God, all that we do to insult and disobey, God abundantly pardons again and again.”

Source: Evolving in Monkey Town: How a Girl Who Knew All the Answers Learned to Ask the Questions

“There is an old, old story about a theologian who was asked to reconcile the Doctrine of Divine Mercy with the doctrine of infant damnation. 'The Almighty,' he explained, 'finds it necessary to do things in His official and public capacity which in His private and personal capacity He deplores.”

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Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“In His tender mercies, God has an incredible capacity to love the unlovely.”

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Author:R. C. Sproul

“When God's justice falls, we are offended because we think God owes perpetual mercy. We must not take His grace for granted. We must never lose our capacity to be amazed by grace”

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Book:Classic Teachings on the Nature of God

Source: Classic Teachings on the Nature of God

“God's grace is so powerful that it has the capacity to overcome our natural resistance to it.”

“No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.”

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Book:Gandhi on Non-violence

Source: Gandhi on Non-violence

“If I did not believe, if I did not make what is called an act of faith (and each act of faith increases our faith, and our capacity for faith), if I did not have faith that the works of mercy do lighten the sum total of suffering in the world, so that those who are suffering on both sides of this ghastly struggle somehow mysteriously find their pain lifted and some balm of consolation poured on their wounds, if I did not believe these things, the problem of evil would indeed be overwhelming.”

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Author:Dorothy Day