Quotes

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“Kindness is Christianity with its working clothes on. ”

- Unknown?

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“Goals determine what you're going to be.”

- Julius Irving

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“We are not built for ourselves, but for God. Not for service for God, but for God. ”

- Oswald Chambers

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“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

- Edith Wharton

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“The future is as bright as the promises of God.”

- Adoniran Judson

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“A waist is a terrible thing to mind.”

- Tom Wilson

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“Choices are the hinges of destiny.”

- Edwin Markham

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“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

- American Declaration of Independence, 1776

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“You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.”

- Damon Runyon

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“God is not a theorem; He is a person. As such, He is only known and encountered in a total relationship which involves and affects not only our mind but the like and character as well. To know God’s dossier is nothing; to know Him is everything.”

- R.T. France

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“Hidden away in the inner nature of the real man is the law of his life, and someday he will discover it and consciously make use of it. He will heal himself, make himself happy and prosperous, and life in an entirely different world. For he will have discovered that life is from within and not from without.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Life is too complicated not to be orderly.”

- Martha Stewart

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“Life is not separate from death. It only looks that way.”

- Blackfoot Indian proverb

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“My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. ”

- John 4:34 (Revised Standard Version)

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“You have two hands. One to help yourself, the second to help others.”

- Unknown

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“We cannot but admit that not even the least thing takes place unless it is ordered by God. For who have ever been so concerned and curious as to find out how much hair he has on his head? There is no one. God, however, knows the number. Indeed, nothing is too small in us or in any other creature, not to be ordered by the all-knowing and all-powerful providence of God.”

- Huldryrch Zwingli

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“Forgiveness is the final form of love. ”

- Reinhold Niebuhr

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“Enthusiasm finds the opportunities, and energy makes the most of them.”

- Henry S. Haskins

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“We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent, and God is shining through it all the time.”

- Thomas Merton

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“Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.”— George F. McDougall

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"Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making." –Leigh Hunt

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"As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is." – Eric Sevareid

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“I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays, let them overtake me unexpectedly, waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: 'Why this is Christmas Day!” – Ray Stannard Baker

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“Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given, when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.” – Joan Winmill Brown

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Christmas… that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance -- a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.” – Augusta E. Rundel