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- All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his to us, and…
- You will never understand why God does what He does, but if you believe Him, that is all that is necessary. Let us learn to…
- Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here, our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next.…
- The pain of loneliness is one way in which he wants to get our attention. We may be earnestly desiring to be obedient and holy.…
- One morning I was reading the story of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand. The disciples could find only five loaves of bread and two…
- The process of shaping the child, shapes also the mother herself. Â Reverence for her sacred burden calls her to all that is pure and…
- We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take…
- This hard place in which you perhaps find yourself is the very place in which God is giving you opportunity to look only to Him,…
- Here lies the tremendous mystery - that God should be all-powerful, yet refuse to coerce. He summons us to cooperation. We are honored in being…
- My most earnest of all pleas to singles is abandonment of the self, surrender to Christ of all unfulfilled longings, an unequivocal willingness to receive…
- God has promised to supply all our needs. What we don't have now, we don't need now.
- I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casual, nondiscriminato ry "making out" and "sleeping around,"…
- Accept your loneliness. It is one stage, and only one stage, on a journey that brings you to God. It will not always last. Offer…
- The difficulty is to keep a tight reign on our emotions. They may remain, but it is not they who are to rule the action.…
- I believe with all my heart God's Story has a happy ending. . . But not yet, not necessarily yet. It takes faith to hold…
- When the time comes to die, make sure that all you have to do is die!" ~Jim Elliot
- God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are always merciful -- "severe mercies" at times but…
- I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it.
- One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when all that legitimately concerns us is today.…
- Restlessness and impatience change nothing except our peace and joy. Peace does not dwell in outward things, but in the heart prepared to wait trustfully…
- We are women, and my plea is Let me be a woman, holy through and through, asking for nothing but what God wants to give…
- But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do I really want? Was it to love…
- We are not asked to SEE," said Amy. "Why need we when we KNOW?" We know--not the answer to the inevitable Why, but the incontestable…
- If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand…
- Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle