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We should also build the attitude that there is nothing of a vacation, nothing of a holiday in this great missionary service.… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
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But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life;… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
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“This is my prayer to thee, my lord - strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
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Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that… — Maggie Shipstead Copy Share Image
Behind every door on every ordinary street, in every hut in every ordinary village in this middling planet of a trivial star,… — Vikram Seth Copy Share Image
If rulers learn to undervalue the lives of their own subjects by the custom of war, how much more do they undervalue… — Noah Worcester Copy Share Image
We should fix ourselves firmly in the presence of God by conversing all the time with Him...we should feed our soul with… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
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When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks,… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
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Revival, as contrasted with a Holy Ghost atmosphere is a clean- cut breakthrough of the Spirit, a sweep of Holy Ghost power,… — Norman Grubb Copy Share Image
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[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable… — Luci Swindoll Copy Share Image
“C. S. Lewis put it this way: We are halfhearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
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The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience. Patience means restraining one's inclinations. There… — Tokugawa Iehiro Copy Share Image
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I was supremely happy, for I had seen. Nothing could ever be the same. I have drunk at the clear and pure… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When a man receives something Divine, in his heart he rejoices; but when he receives something diabolic, he is disturbed. The Christian… — Seraphim of Sarov Copy Share Image
First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
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I have committed myself to joy. I have come to realize that those who make space for joy, those who prefer nothing… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
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