Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
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Dag Hammarskjold Quote
“God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.”
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