"I love the melodies in the Old Testament,……" — Maya Angelou
"I love the melodies in the Old Testament, how preachers highlight them when they read from the Scripture. But I was influenced forever by the New Testament. I love the Beatitudes, informing us that the meek shall inherit the earth."
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760 Quotes by Maya Angelou
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I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget…
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If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
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When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
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My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love…
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While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else…
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Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
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My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go…
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Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
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I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able…
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If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
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Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You…
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Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
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I have met many, many farm workers and friends who love justice and who are willing to sacrifice for what…
— Cesar Chavez
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They're called in the Scripture the Beatitudes. You know why they're called the Beatitudes without being prestigious? Because they should…
— Leonard Ravenhill
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If we were to set out to establish a religion in polar opposition to the Beatitudes Jesus taught, it would…
— Tony Campolo
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The sweetest lives are those to duty wed, Whose deeds, both great and small Are close-knot strands of an unbroken…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on…
— Oscar Romero
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The examination of conscience has an important educational value. it teaches us to look sincerely at our own lives, to…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact…
— Pope Francis
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For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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