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Spiritual strongholds begin with a thought. One thought becomes a consideration. A consideration develops into an attitude, which leads then to action.…
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Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins,…
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Prayer lays hold of God's plan and becomes the link between His will and its accomplishment on earth. Amazing things happen, and…
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If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little…
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In whatever God does in the course of our lives, he gives us, through the experience, some power to help others.
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Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense,…
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She had the consciousness of being nine-and-twenty to give her some regrets and some apprehensions; she was fully satisfied of being still…
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It is always possible to be thankful for what is given rather than to complain about what is not given. One or…
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The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?
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All our problems are theological ones, William Temple said. All of them have to do with our relationship to God and his…
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Are you afraid? Remember the "fear nots" of the Bible.
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For one who has made thanksgiving the habit of his life, the morning prayer will be, 'Lord, what will you give me…
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It is a sweet and seemly thing to die for one's country.
— Horace
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It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the…
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Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it…
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I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious.…
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Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money.
— John Lyly
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The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly…
— Israel Shenker
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I must be free... free to do what I like, say what I like, write what I like, within the limits prescribed…
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To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't…
— Paul McCartney
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The betterment of the world can be accomplished through pure and goodly deeds and through commendable and seemly conduct.
— Bahá'u'lláh
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So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all…
— Homer
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Praise is not seemly in the mouth of a sinner, for it was not sent him of the Lord.
— Bible
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