Quotes

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“I heard the bells on Christmas Day

Their old, familiar carols play,

And wild and sweet

The words repeat

Of peace on earth, good-will to men!”

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly." ― Andy Rooney

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“Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.” ― Calvin Coolidge

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“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.” ― Peg Bracken

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“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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“When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. ”

- Rabbi Harold Kushner

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20 Amazing Things Jesus Said

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“Inside the will of God there is no failure. Outside the will of God there is no success.”

- Bernard Edinger

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“At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found. ”

- Hudson newsletter

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“It is through giving that we receive, and it is through dying that we are born to eternal life. ”

- St. Francis of Assisi

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“The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.”

- Chinese proverb

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“Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.”

- Karl Barth

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“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. ”

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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“To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.”

- St. Ignatius of Loyola

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“Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”

- Marlene Dietrich

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“Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.”

- Dale Carnegie

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“God does not always heal us instantly the way we think. He is not a jack-in-the-box God. But God is walking with me through this.”

- Thelma Wells

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“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose. ”

- Hadia Bejar

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“[some people] have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.”

- A.H. Maslow

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“Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.”

- Matthew 7:7-11 (Revised Standard Version)

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“When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”

- Alexander Graham Bell

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“True religion is the life we live, not the creed we profess.”

- J.F. Wright

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“The root of joy is gratefulness...It is not joy that makes us grateful; it is gratitude that makes us joyful. ”

- Brother David Steindl-Rast

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“Absolutely nothing will revitalize a discouraged church faster than rediscovering its purpose. ”

- Rick Warren

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“Trust in Allah, but tie your camel.”

- Islamic saying