Quotes

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“We shall have all eternity in which to celebrate our victories, but we have only one swift hour before the sunset in which to win them.”

- Robert Moffat

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“The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.”

- Roger Houseden (submitted by jrnorwood)

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“The reason God wants his glory to be big is because that’s what the world according to the Bible means--a God who has a lifeboat big enough to save us. ”

- Max Lucado

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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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“A lot of people feel, "God loves me because he has to. But does he like me?" God actually likes you. He made you, and he’s got a beautiful purpose for your life.”

- Luis Palau

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“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway.”

- Harper Lee

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“It is time to bring reasonable and appropriate falling apart into fashion.”

- Beth Miller, M.D.

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“None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“The best way to knock the chip off your neighbor's shoulder is to pat him on the back.”

- Unknown

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“Talking to men for God is a great thing, but talking to God for men is greater still. ”

- E.M. Bounds

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  “[Jesus] can do for the soul what water can do for the body; he can go where it’s cracked and flaky and dusty and he can bring nourishment; he can soften that which is hard. ”

- Max Lucado

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“You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.”

- Andre Agassi

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“Stillness is what creates love. Movement is what creates life. To be still and still moving—this is everything.”

- Do Hyun Choe

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“Rejoice, that the mortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity.”

- John Huss

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“Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possiblity.”

- Oprah Winfrey

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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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“For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again; this charge I have received from my Father. ”

- John 10:17-18

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“We should all be incurably agnostic if God had not revealed himself.”

- David Watson

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“If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope.”

- Max Gunther

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“Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.”

- Erma Bombeck

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“Cultivate a thankful spirit! It will be to thee a perpetual feast. ”

- J.R. MacDuff

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“In heaven, God will not ask is why we sinned; He will ask us why we didn’t repent.”

- Pope Shenouda III

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“I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the people I read about.”

- Critic Edmond Wilson

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“Nobody sees a flower, really--it is so small we haven't time, and to see takes time.”

- Georgia O'Keefe

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“The heart, like the grape, is prone to delivering its harvest in the same moment it appears to be crushed.”

- Roger Houseden (submitted by jrnorwood)