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- The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result…
- I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than…
- God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?
- Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
- To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies…
- For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.
- Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the…
- Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it.' I have included two Graces…
- Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.
- We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility,…
- Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it…
- Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
- The people with very hard problems are understood by God. He knows what wretched machines they are trying to drive. Some day he will fling…
- Temperance referred not abstaining, but going the right length and no further...of course it may be the duty of a particular Christian, or any Christian,…
- God gives His gifts where He finds the vessel empty enough to receive them.
- Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work:…
- God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.
- Think of me as a fellow patient in the same hospital who, having been admitted a little earlier could give some advice.
- If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why,…
- Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work:…
- The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.
- One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to…
- Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot…
- When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that…
- Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it.
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- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. — J. J. Abrams
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Give yourself something to work toward - constantly. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi