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- If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of…
- Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
- As cold as everything looks in winter, the sun has not forsaken us. He has only drawn away for a little, for good reasons, one…
- Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in…
- To try too hard to make people good is one way to make them worse. The only way to make them good is to be…
- Half of the misery in the world comes from trying to look, instead of trying to be, what one is not.
- One thing is clear to me, that no indulgence of passion destroys the spiritual nature so much as respectable selfishness.
- To the dim and bewildered vision of humanity, God's care is more evident in some instances than in others; and upon such instances men seize,…
- What would the Living One have me do?
- Doubts are the messengers of the Living One to the honest. They are the first knock at our door of things that are not yet,…
- One who not merely beholds the outward shows of things, but catches a glimpse of the soul that looks out of them, whose garment and…
- Good souls many will one day be horrified at the things they now believe of God.
- Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.
- Instead of asking yourself whether you believe or not, ask yourself whether you have, this day, done one thing because He said, Do it! or…
- Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.
- There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
- Whose work is it but your own to open your eyes? But indeed the business of the universe is to make such a fool out…
- It is by loving, and not by being loved, that one can come nearest the soul of another; yea, that, where two love, it is…
- When I can no more stir my soul to move, and life is but the ashes of a fire; when I can but remember that…
- Our life is no dream; but it ought to become one, and perhaps will.
- It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.
- We are all very anxious to be understood, and it is very hard not to be. But there is one thing much more necessary.' What…
- But there are victories far worse than defeats; and to overcome an angel too gentle to put out all his strength, and ride away in…
- There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in…
- I don't know how to thank you.' Then I will tell you. There is only one way I care for. Do better, and grow better,…
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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