Quotes

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Visiting a Fallen Comrade in Ryukyu Islands, 1945

I lost many, many buddies over there. Some I don't even remember their names. I can still remember their faces, I remember how they died.

- Joe Hanley (WWII, Europe)

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“I'm thankful, Lord, that all the darkness in the world has never put out Thy light.”

- Unknown?

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“He is the best physician who knows the worthlessness of most medicines.”

- Benjamin Franklin

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“Thou who hast given so much to me, give me one more thing a grateful heart! ”

- George Herbert

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“Take away my license, but don't steal my independence. I will let you drive, But let me tell you Where I want to go. ”

- Joanne Coste

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“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”

- Lena Horne

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“Take away my license, but don't steal my independence. I will let you drive, But let me tell you Where I want to go. ”

- Joanne Coste

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“All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.”

- Michael Carr

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“This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ. ”

- Frank McKibben

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“He who is outside the door has already got a good part of his journey behind him.”

- Dutch proverb

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“Youve got to believe that God is in control of your life. It may be a tough time but youve got to believe that God has a reason for it and hes going to make everything good. ”

- Joel Osteen

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“Make a memory with your children, Take the time in busy days; Have some fun while they are growing, Show your love in gentle ways. ”

- Elaine Hardt

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“There is no point at which you can say, 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'”

- Carrie Fisher

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“God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.”

- Ethel Watts Mumford (18781940), U.S. novelist, humor writer

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“The really happy man is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour.”

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“The income of God's Word is the outcome of a changed life. ”

- Ed Cole

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“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstances.”

- Bruce Barton

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“God is especially present in the hearts of His people, by His Holy Spirit; and indeed the hearts of holy men are temples in the truth of things, and in type and shadow they are heaven itself. For God reigns in the hearts of His servants; there is His Kingdom.”

- Jeremy Taylor

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“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”

- Louisa May Alcott

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“God does not have to come and tell me what I must do for Him, He brings me into a relationship with Himself where I hear His call and understand what He wants me to do, and I do it out of sheer love to Him... When people say they have had a call to foreign service, or to any particular sphere of work, they mean that their relationship to God has enabled them to realize what they can do for God.”

- Oswald Chambers

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“There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.”

- Lillian Eichler Watson

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“Good Friday is the mirror held up by Jesus...it turns us to that cross and to his eyes and we hear these words, "Father forgive them for they know not what they do." ”

- Robert G. Trache

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“It is such a folly to pass one's time fretting, instead of resting quietly on the heart of Jesus. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

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The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”

- Henry Ward Beecher

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“It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should. ”

- A.W. Tozer