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Good Day!

In times like these, it’s good to remember that there have always been times like these.

Faith in the Public Square

"I believe that this 21st century will be another great century for America. But to make it so we've got to regain confidence in ourselves.
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"Connect our faith with our feeling about our national future.
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"The combination of faith which leads to hope and good values and hard work produces amazingly great results. Faith in God, love of country, sense of unity, confidence in the power of every individual. These are the things that have carried the American through crises greater than the ones we face today and will, I'm sure, propel us forward to a better place, if only we will return to those values and recognize them as a source of national strength.
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"Your country needs you now, and what you believe in, more than ever."

Senator Joseph Lieberman

Worth Living

This is the world we live in
And these are the hands we're given
Use them and let's start trying
To make it a place worth living in.

Genesis
Land of Confusion

No Pickle Sucking

We are the creatures of our thinking. We can think ourselves into defeat or we can talk ourselves into victory . . . Don't partake of the spirit of our times. Look for the good and build on it. Don't be a 'pickle sucker.'

President Gordon B. Hinckley
“Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled,” in Speeches of the Year, 1974