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Adapted from ‘The Journey: How to Live By Faith in an Uncertain World’ by Billy Graham (W Publishing Group, 2006). Used by Permission. What does it take for us to become more like Christ? First, repentance. Second, becoming more like Christ requires submission. Every day a battle rages in our hearts between our wills and…

Whoever destroys a single life is as guilty as though he had destroyed the entire world; and whoever rescues a single life earns as much merit as though he had rescued the entire world. –The Talmud, Mishna, Sanhedrin 37a

About a century or two ago, the Pope challenged the Jewish community of Rome to a debate. The Jews looked around for a champion who could defend their faith, but no one wanted to volunteer. It was too risky. So they finally picked an old man named Moishe who spent his life sweeping up after…

Free from anger, duties observed, principled, with no overbearing pride, trained, a ‘last-body’: he’s what I call a brahmin. Like water on a lotus leaf, a mustard seed on the tip of an awl, he doesn’t adhere to sensual pleasures: he’s what I call a brahmin. –Dhammapada, 26, translated by Thanissaro Bhikkhu.
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