Avoid Quotes
2552 quotes by 1849 authors
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Avoid duplicity, that is, do not let your heart be divided between attachment to God and attachment to earthly things, 'You cannot serve God and…
— John of Kronstadt
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We ask for what reason our Lord was unwilling to state the time of His coming (cf. Mk. 13:31-32). If we ask it, we shall…
— Ambrose
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In prayer and in every work of your life avoid suspicious ness, doubt and diabolical imaginations. Let your spiritual eye be single, in order that…
— John of Kronstadt
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Avoid alcohol as you would a loathsome disease. Beer will do to you what hard liquor will do. Each contains alcohol in varying amounts.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The roots of the Divine are entrenched in this body. If you nurture the roots, how can you avoid the flowering?
— Jaggi Vasudev
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I act freely when I am tuned in, centred and loving, but if possible, I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you…
— Carine Roitfeld
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There is nothing mysterious about the principles of the gospel. We have studied them in the scriptures, we have discussed them in Sunday School, and…
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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If you will study the scriptures diligently, your power to avoid temptation and to receive direction of the Holy Ghost in all you do will…
— Thomas S. Monson
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The word 'commitment' has lost it's meaning. I'm old enough to remember when it used to be positive. A commited person was someone to be…
— Mitch Albom
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Only people willing to work to the point of discomfort on a regular basis using effective means to produce that discomfort will actually look like…
— Mark Rippetoe
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Avoid jealously for this destroys good deeds as fire destroys wood.
— Abu Hurairah
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Avoid contradiction. Clear institutional identity helps give you the competitive edge.
— Marty Sklar
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One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as…
— Pema Chodron
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Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.
— Louis C. K.
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Certain things need to be said if one is to avoid falsifying the problem.
— Frantz Fanon
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Looking at the world today, we might easily forget that the main purpose of our life - you could call it the heart of being…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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We have to avoid the spiritual sickness of a self-referentia l church. It's true that when you get out into the street, as happens to…
— Pope Francis
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I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization... No believer in Christ, no institution of…
— Pope John Paul II
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