The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.― Milan Kundera

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Change won’t happen through ‘trying harder’ but only through encountering the radical grace of God.

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If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.― Will Rogers

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The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.

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If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. - James Herriot

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Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.― George Orwell

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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.― Woodrow Wilson

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