Quotes

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The Bible is to us what the star was to the wise men; but if we spend all our time in gazing upon it, observing its motions, and admiring its splendor, without being led to Christ by it, the use of it will be lost on us.

-Thomas Adams

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“No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory. The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Rather than persistence in service, service consists of courtesy. Observance of courtesy in the course of service is better than service itself. ”

- Munazil in Attar: Tadhikirat, 541

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“You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow. ”

- Dr. Dennis Anderson

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“Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future. ”

- Johann von Goethe

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“May I know Thee more clearly, love Thee more dearly, and follow Thee more nearly, day by day. ”

- Saint Richard of Chichester

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“The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher.”

- Thomas Huxley

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“Everything that is worthwhile in life is scary. Choosing a school, choosing a career, getting married, having kids--all those things are scary. If it is not fearful, it is not worthwhile.”

- Paul Tornier

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“One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.”

- Andrew Murray

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“Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.”

- Fred Astaire

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“The best proof of love is trust.”

- Joyce Brothers

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“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. ”

- Victor Hugo

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“Breast cancer has existed since Hippocrates. But when you plot the sales of antiperspirant deodorants with the incidence of breast cancer in the United States, they both have grown in almost a parallel fashion.”

- Dr. Kris McGrath

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“Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.”

- Chinese Proverb

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“Those who live ‘by the flesh’ experience God’s law as a burden, and indeed as a denial or at least a restriction of their own freedom.”

- John Paul II

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“Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime, Therefore, we are saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; Therefore, we are saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone. Therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as from our own; Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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“A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.”

- Nils Nilson’s sister

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“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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