Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer
Source: Max on Life: Answers and Insights to Your Most Important Questions
“Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.”
— Thornton Wilder, book The Eighth Day
The Eighth Day (1967)
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