Quotes

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“Forever at the door I gave my heart and soul. My fortune, too. I've no flock anymore, no other work in view. My occupation: love. It's all I do. ”

- John of the Cross

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“...Our true worth, value, and identity come not from what the world says, but from complete acceptance by God. In and of ourselves, we'll never be enough; we'll wear ourselves out trying.”

- Nancy Stafford

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“Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty. It merely moves from their faces to their hearts.”

- Martin Buxbaum

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“Enthusiasm is as good a thing in the Church as fire is in a cook stove. ”

- Billy Sunday

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“The soul renounced shall abide in the boundlessness of God's life. This is liberty, this is prosperity. The more we lose, the more we gain. ”

- Watchman Nee

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“There are men who hate me; Let me love them. There are men I have wronged; Let them forgive me.”

- Saying of the Dinka Tribe

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“We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”

- Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God

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“Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there.”

- Anonymous

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“No human being escapes the necessity of conceiving some good outside himself towards which his thought turns in a movement of desire, supplication, and hope. ”

- Simone Weil

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“When one is out of touch with oneself, one cannot touch others. ”

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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“Lives based on having are less free than lives based on doing or being.”

- E.Y. Harburg

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“How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.”

- G. Elliston

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“Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.”

- C.S. Lewis

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“I feel I've had a consistent career, but I could only be as good as the team.”

- Ken Anderson

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“It is not sacrifice if you love what you're doing.”

- Mia Hamm

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“It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?”

- Eleanor H. Porter, "Pollyanna"

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“The spontaneous jollity of the carefree extrovert comes to be equated with healthy Christian living, and jolly extroverts in our churches are encouraged to become complacent in carnality.”

- J.I. Packer

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