"I am a little pencil in the hands of God, " Mother Teresa often told interviewers who asked about the future of her order.

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"There can be surely little doubt that when people stop connecting with their religious faith - their sense that they are in the hands of a God who loves them - they may easily then start to lose faith in themselves, and hence lose faith also in those around them, and so become angry, embittered and fearful, " he said.

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It had not only the world's second-highest waterfall but also the wondrous Valley of a Thousand Hills, which had been created, said the Zulus, when God crumpled the world in his hands just at the point of discarding it in disgust...before deciding against it and over the years, even into its declining days, it had remained a haunting source and setting for the storytellers of the country.

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