Quotes

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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Do what good you can, and do it solely for God’s glory, as free from it yourself as though you did not exist. Ask nothing whatever in return. Done in this way, your works are spiritual and godly.”

- Meister Eckhart

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“There is something inexpressively pleasing to a justified mind to know that God has all the honor in our salvation, we have none; to know that God’s honor is not violated, but on the contrary, shines more illustrious; to know that God’s law is not in...”

- Robert Murray Cheney

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“On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”

- Aldous Huxley

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“When the solution is simple, God is answering.”

- Albert Einstein

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“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”

- Japanese proverb

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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ”

- Helen Keller

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“Measure not God’s love and favor by your own feelings. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.”

- Richard Sibbes

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“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”

- Buddha

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“I am justified and acceptable to God even though there are in me sin, unrighteousness, and fear of death.”

- Martin Luther

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“The will of God will never take you where the grace of God cannot keep you.”

- Unknown?

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“If it frustrates you that they don't allow laptops on a Ferris wheel, you may be a workaholic.”

- Dr. Donald E. Wetmore

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“There is a word in Pali, "teju," which variously means heat and flame and potency and radiance and splendor. It is the power we embody if we dedicate our lives to the force of kindness, to transforming our intentions.”

- Sharon Salzberg

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“As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us.”

- Psalm 103:12

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“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

- Will Rogers

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“Even to lose, I think I'd still compete.”

- Daley Thompson

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“Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.”

- Leo Aikman