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God never ceases to speak to us, but the noise of the world without and the tumult of our passions within bewilder…
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Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
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I would have no desire other than to accomplish thy will. Teach me to pray; pray thyself in me.
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Speak, move, act in peace, as if you were in prayer. In truth, this is prayer.
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Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble.
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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we…
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Little opportunities should be improved.
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Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
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Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation - speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in…
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The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the…
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We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
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All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.
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In the light of eternity we shall see that what we desired would have been fatal to us, and that what we…
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Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our…
— Samuel Johnson
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For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation…
— Aldous Huxley
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The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car…
— Vladimir Lenin
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I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any…
— Fred Hoyle
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Going to a junkyard is a sobering experience. There you can see the ultimate destination of almost everything we desired.
— Roger von Oech
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Whenever we feel lost, or insane, or afraid, all we have to do is ask for His help. The help might not…
— Marianne Williamson
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We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.
— Lana Del Rey
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We had nothing to lose, Nothing to gain, Nothing we desired anymore, Except to make our lives into a work of art.…
— Lana Del Rey
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