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Love never fails. — 1 Corinthians 13:8

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In times like these, faith is sorely tested.

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Through all my days and works, as far back as at least fifty years, coffee has been my most companionable steady.

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In Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov, Ivan Karamazov refers to “the miracle of restraint” — God’s choice to curb His own power.

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