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When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected, and you are wearied and oppressed by your loneliness, remember then, as always, that God… — John of Kronstadt
I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others,… — Alexander Whyte
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us… — J C Ryle
The greatest threat now is a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear… — Dick Cheney
A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes… — Tommy Franks
My own view of this, by the way, is, if the war on terrorism is successful over time, in its own way it's going to… — Lawrence Eagleburger
The starting point of great success and achievement has always been the same. It is for you to dream big dreams. There is nothing more… — Brian Tracy
When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the… — Mother Teresa
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and… — Elie Wiesel
He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same… — Mother Teresa
The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great… — Salman Rushdie
By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders… — Aberjhani
Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions. — Sogyal Rinpoche
It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts. — Teresa of Avila
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my… — Amedeo Modigliani
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. — Alexis de Tocqueville
A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his — Arthur Conan Doyle
These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. — Henri Frederic Amiel
There is an illusion of central position, justifying one's own purposes as right and everybody else¹s as wrong, and providing a proper degree of paranoia.… — Henri Frederic Amiel
To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence. — Aristotle
Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay for… — James A. Baldwin
The great poem and the deep theorem are new to every reader, and yet are his own experiences, because he himself recreates them. — Jacob Bronowski

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