Quotes

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“Angels may not dress the part, With robes and wings that soar, Often angels come as friends Knocking at your door. ”

- Unknown

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“So you have failed? You cannot fail. You have not failed; you have gained experience. Forward! ”

- St. Josemaría Escrivá

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“Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.”

- Henry J. Kaiser

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“I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.”

- Shakti Gawain, author

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“Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life. ”

- Joyce Meyer

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“Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else.”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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“Let me tell you this: Faith comes and goes. But if it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will. ”

- Flannery O’Connor

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“It’s possible to be courteous without being meek. Bring an advocate with you.”

- Judith Stone

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“Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.”

- Emily Dickinson

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“When our hope breaks, let our patience hold.”

- Thomas Fuller

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There is no duty we perform for God that sin does not oppose. And the more spirituality or holiness there is in what we do, the greater is it’s enmity to it. Thus those who seek most for God, experience the strongest opposition.

 

-John Owen

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“Courage is being scared to death--and saddling up anyway.”

- John Wayne

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Look once again to Jesus Christ and His death upon the cross. Look and try to understand that what He did and suffered, He did and suffered for you, for me, for us all. He carried our sin, our captivity, and our suffering, and did not carry it in vain. He carried it away.

 

-Karl Barth

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“You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

- Rabindranath Tagore

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Turn to God from idols. For the sword of His wrath that had been aimed at you has been sheathed into the heart of His Son. And the arrows of His anger that had been put against your breast were loosed into the Lord Jesus Christ. Because He has died for you, you were forgiven.

 

-Paris Redhead

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I always enjoy your choice of posts..  Thank you Peter.

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“Let him who cannot be alone, beware of community... Let him who is not in community, beware of being alone. ”

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“Optimists are less likely to suffer from high blood pressure or other early signs of cardiovascular disease than pessimists.”

- University of Helsinki study