To pine for an alternative past is a waste of energy. In the pristine world of your infinite spiritual self, there is… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
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“True Christian fortitude consists in strength of mind, through grace, exerted in two things; in ruling and suppressing the evil and unruly… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
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The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The widespread interest in gossip is inspired, not by a love of knowledge but by malice: no one gossips about other people's… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The power of God has not in the least bit been diminished over the past 2000 years. Our Lord still sits on… — Eric Ludy Copy Share Image
Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not… — Donald Cargill Copy Share Image
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Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
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Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells… — Ruth Hurmence Green Copy Share Image
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We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Who is happy with his appearance? I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a… — Mireille Mathieu Copy Share Image
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In life and business, there are two cardinal sins, the first is to act precipitously without thought, and the second is to… — Carl Icahn Copy Share Image
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A person who sins neither in thought nor deed, and is fair and just, gains enormous courage and strength. As a leader,… — Konosuke Matsushita Copy Share Image
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only really good vegetable is Tabasco sauce. Put Tabasco sauce in everything. Tabasco sauce is to bachelor cooking what forgiveness is… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
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So, it becomes the devil's business to keep the Christian's spirit imprisoned. He knows that the believing and justified Christian has been… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
“Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
The whole of education should be designed so as to occupy a boy's free time in cultivation of his body. He has… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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![“The way of the Lord is the way of happiness. ‘Wickedness never was happiness’ [Alma 41:10]. Transgression never was happiness. Sin never was happiness. Disobedience never was happiness. The way of happiness is following the way of the Lord. I believe this with all my heart.” quote by Gordon B. Hinckley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8e9/gordon-b-hinckley-331_believe_the-way-of-the-lord-is-the-way-of-happin_193229.jpg)
