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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/254564-there-is-no-pit-so-deep-that-god-s-love-is</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2022 00:32:45 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Corrie Ten Boom]]>
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	    <![CDATA["There is no pit so deep, that God's love is not deeper still." -- Corrie Ten Boom]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:07:44 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Frank Herbert]]>
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	    <![CDATA["A large populace held in check by a small but powerful force is quite a common situation in our universe. And we know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers— “One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders. “Two: When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. “Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!" -- Frank Herbert]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:08:18 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Frank Herbert]]>
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	    <![CDATA["A large populace held in check by a small but powerful force is quite a common situation in our universe. And we know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers—
One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders.
Two: When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.
Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!" -- Frank Herbert]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11149834-a-large-populace-held-in-check-by-a-small-but</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:08:21 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Frank Herbert]]>
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	    <![CDATA["A large populace held in check by a small but powerful force is quite a common situation in our universe. And we know the major conditions wherein this large populace may turn upon its keepers— “One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders. “Two: When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. “Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!” Alia" -- Frank Herbert]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7236882-if-you-want-converts-surely-one-normal-person-is-worth</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2022 03:45:10 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Corrie ten Boom]]>
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	    <![CDATA["If you want converts, surely one normal person is worth all the half-wits in the world!” “May I tell you the truth Lieutenant Rahms? The truth, Sir, is that God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours. So different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things. In the scripture I learn that God values us not for our strength or our brains, but simply because He has made us. Who knows, in His eyes, a half-wit may be worth more than a watchmaker. Or a Lieutenant." -- Corrie ten Boom]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11317239-and-even-if-it-wasn-t-right-it-wasn-t-so-very-wrong</guid>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:23:11 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Corrie ten Boom]]>
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	    <![CDATA["And even if it wasn’t right—it wasn’t so very wrong, was it? Not wrong like sadism and murder and the other monstrous evils we saw in Ravensbruck every day. Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil that one could almost believe one’s own secret sins didn’t matter." -- Corrie ten Boom]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:22:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Corrie Ten Boom]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/425390-oh-this-was-the-great-ploy-of-satan-in-that]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter." -- Corrie Ten Boom]]>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:26:11 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Corrie ten Boom]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9349208-oh-this-was-the-great-ploy-of-satan-in-that]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil that one could almost believe one’s own secret sins didn’t matter. The cancer spread." -- Corrie ten Boom]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/223237-being-all-equal-and-independent-no-one-ought-to-harm</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2022 22:51:01 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by John Locke]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions." -- John Locke]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39580-you-want-proof-there-s-a-god-look-outside-watch-a</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 20:48:38 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Frank Peretti]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39580-you-want-proof-there-s-a-god-look-outside-watch-a]]>
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	    <![CDATA["You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset." -- Frank Peretti]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/120263-comfort-can-be-a-dangerous-thing-you-stick-around-home</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 20:48:39 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Frank Peretti]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore." -- Frank Peretti]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39584-sin-is-the-monster-we-love-to-deny-it-is</guid>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Sep 2023 20:48:47 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Frank Peretti]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/39584-sin-is-the-monster-we-love-to-deny-it-is]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it." -- Frank Peretti]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/200142-sometimes-standing-against-evil-is-more-important-than-defeating-it</guid>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:49:48 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by N.D. Wilson]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/200142-sometimes-standing-against-evil-is-more-important-than-defeating-it]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself." -- N.D. Wilson]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/14559-good-morning-said-bilbo-and-he-meant-it-the-sun</guid>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Sep 2024 14:10:13 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by J.R.R. Tolkien]]>
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	    <![CDATA["Good Morning!&quot; said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat.

&quot;What do you mean?&quot; he said. &quot;Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?&quot;

&quot;All of them at once,&quot; said Bilbo. &quot;And a very fine morning for a pipe of tobacco out of doors, into the bargain.

...

&quot;Good morning!&quot; he said at last. &quot;We don't want any adventures here, thank you! You might try over The Hill or across The Water.&quot; By this he meant that the conversation was at an end.
&quot;What a lot of things you do use Good morning for!&quot; said Gandalf. &quot;Now you mean that you want to get rid of me, and that it won't be good till I move off." -- J.R.R. Tolkien]]>
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		<guid>https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/717888-it-was-at-a-church-service-in-munich-that-i</guid>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 19:59:28 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Corrie ten Boom]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/717888-it-was-at-a-church-service-in-munich-that-i]]>
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	    <![CDATA["It was at a church service in Munich that I saw him, a former S.S. man who had stood guard at the shower room door in the processing center at Ravensbruck. He was the first of our actual jailers that I had seen since that time. And suddenly it was all there – the roomful of mocking men, the heaps of clothing, Betsie's pain-blanched face.

He came up to me as the church was emptying, beaming and bowing. “How grateful I am for your message, Fraulein.” He said. “To think that, as you say, He has washed my sins away!” His hand was thrust out to shake mine. And I, who had preached so often to the people in Bloemendaal the need to forgive, kept my hand at my side.

Even as the angry, vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him. I tried to smile, I struggles to raise my hand. I could not. I felt nothing, not the slightest spark of warmth or charity. And so again I breathed a silent prayer. Jesus, I prayed, I cannot forgive him. Give me Your forgiveness.

As I took his hand the most incredible thing happened. From my shoulder along my arm and through my hand a current seemed to pass from me to him, while into my heart sprang a love for this stranger that almost overwhelmed me. And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself." -- Corrie ten Boom]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:06:00 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Corrie ten Boom]]>
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	    <![CDATA["As we trooped back out through the shower room door, the S.S. men ran their hands over every prisoner, back, and sides. 
 The woman ahead of me was searched three times.  Behind me, Betsie was searched.  No hand touched me.  At the exit door to the building was a second ordeal, a line of women guards examining each prisoner again.  I slowed down as I reached them but the Aufseherin in charge shoved me roughly by the shoulder.  &quot;Move Along! You're holding up the line!   And so Betsie and I arrived in Barracks 8 in the small hours of that morning, bringing not only the Bible, but a new knowledge of the power of Him whose story it was." -- Corrie ten Boom]]>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Feb 2025 20:06:07 -0800</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Corrie ten Boom]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The truth, sir,” I said, swallowing, “is that God’s viewpoint is sometimes different from ours—so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things.” I knew it was madness to talk this way to a Nazi officer. But he said nothing so I plunged ahead. “In the Bible I learned that God values us not for our strength or our brains but simply because He has made us. Who knows, in His eyes a half-wit may be worth more than a watchmaker. Or—a lieutenant.” Lieutenant Rahms stood up abruptly. “That will be all for today.” He walked swiftly to the door. “Guard!" -- Corrie ten Boom]]>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:10:05 -0700</pubDate>
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			<![CDATA[C add a quote by Mark  Lawrence]]>
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	    <![CDATA[https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12159804-the-greater-tragedy-of-our-world-is-not-the-victims]]>
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	    <![CDATA["The greater tragedy of our world is not the victims of cruelty, but that so many of those victims would, given the opportunity, stand in the shoes of their oppressors and wield the same whip with equal enthusiasm." -- Mark  Lawrence]]>
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