Certain Quotes
7889 quotes by 4693 authors
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All that I now hold dear in life began to mature in the mission field. Had I not been encouraged to be a missionary, I…
— Richard G. Scott
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Be certain that you easily clear the minimum standards for service as a missionary and that you are continually raising the bar.
— L. Tom Perry
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How many girls there are who do not see any wrongdoing in following certain shameless styles like so many sheep. They certainly would blush if…
— Pope Pius XII
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The good of our soul is more important than that of our body; and we have to prefer the spiritual welfare of our neighbor to…
— Pope Pius XII
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It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather…
— Teresa of Avila
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A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk: the parching air Burns frore, and cold…
— John Milton
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If you feel you can't forgive, ask God to penetrate your unforgiveness with His love. When we have to do the impossible, God says that…
— Stormie Omartian
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Marijuana is a useful catalyst for specific optical and aural aesthetic perceptions. I apprehended the structure of certain pieces of jazz and classical music in…
— Allen Ginsberg
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling.…
— Oliver Sacks
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During our journey there were two occasions that we celebrated by honoring someone's talent. Everyone is recognized by a special party, but it has nothing…
— Marlo Morgan
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The Christian is a man who can be certain about the ultimate even when he is most uncertain about the immediate.
— David Lloyd-Jones
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Like the musician, the painter, the poet, and the rest, the true lover of flowers is born, not made. And he is born to happiness…
— Celia Thaxter
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It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating…
— Henry Fielding
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I am as fond of colorful language as anyone, but I try not to inflict it upon strangers. I suspect many people sense they should…
— Roger Ebert
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A man's excellence is like that of water; It benefits all things without striving; It takes to the low places shunned by men. Water is…
— Laozi
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... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste…
— Molly Ivins
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One cannot overstate the childishness of the ideas that feed and stir the masses. Real ideas must as a rule be simplified to the level…
— Sebastian Haffner
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Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place.
— John C. Maxwell
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