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Forgiving the men who killed my parents and brother was a process, a journey into deeper and deeper prayer.

— Immaculée Ilibagiza

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Then Jesus spoke: 'Mountains are moved with faith, Immaculate, but if faith were easy, all the mountains would be gone.

Faith moves mountains, if faith were easy there would be no mountains.

Mom, think of all the good things that could happen to us instead of dwelling on what might go wrong," I urged her unsuccessfully.

I realized that my battle to survive this war would have to be fought inside of me.

We carried on like that through letters and phone calls for the next two years. And things didn’t change when Aimable graduated as a doctor of veterinary medicine.

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Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside.

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To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! … that is what I call prayer.

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"O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."

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