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- 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…
- A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear
- All about us, in earth and air, wherever the eye or ear can reach, there is a power ever breathing itself forth in signs, now…
- Sad, indeed, would the whole matter be if the Bible had told us everything God meant us to believe. But herein is the Bible greatly…
- It is not the high summer alone that is God's. The winter also is His. And into His winter He came to visit us. And…
- On Good Friday Jesus died But rose again at Eastertide.....Lord, teach us to understand that your Son died to save us not from suffering but…
- This is and has been the Father's work from the beginning-to bring us into the home of His heart.
- We can walk without fear, full of hope and courage and strength to do His will, waiting for the endless good which He is always…
- The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His…
- Which of us is other than a secret to all but God!
- God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not…
- If it were not for the outside world, we would have no inside world to understand things by. Least of all could we understand God…
- We profess to think Jesus the grandest and most glorious of men, yet hardly care to be like him. When we are offered his Spirit,…
- If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence
- It was foolish indeed - thus to run farther and farther from all who could help her, as if she had been seeking a fit…
- The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early,…
- I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to…
- But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope, That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led…
- He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give…
- Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If…
- What honest boy would pride himself on not picking pockets ? A thief who was trying to reform would. To be conceited of doing one's…
- To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be…
- In very truth, a wise imagination, which is the presence of the spirit of God, is the best guide that man or woman can have;…
- It is vain to think that any weariness, however caused, any burden, however slight, may be got rid of otherwise than by bowing the neck…
- Oh, I believe that there is no away; that no love, no life, goes ever from us; it goes as He went, that it may…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong