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Lord, Make Me a Channel of Disturbance: The "Reverse St. Francis of Assisi Prayer"....

Lord, make me a channel of disturbance.

Where there is apathy, let me provoke;

Where there is compliance, let me bring questioning;

Where there is silence, may I be a voice.

Where there is too much comfort and too little action, grant disruption;

Where there are doors closed and hearts locked,

Grant the willingness to listen.

When laws dictate and pain is overlooked…

When tradition speaks louder than need…

Grant that I may seek rather to do justice than to talk about it;

Disturb us, O Lord.

To be with, as well as for, the alienated;

To love the unlovable as well as the lovely;

Lord, make me a channel of disturbance.

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Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Albert Einstein

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A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

George S. Patton

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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.

Richard Bach

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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. Mark Twain

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If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.

René Descartes

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"Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."

-Abraham Lincoln

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"Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light." -George Washington

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I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. Abraham Lincoln

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