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God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile.
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God shapes the world by prayer. Prayers are deathless. The lips that uttered them may be closed to death, the heart that felt them may have ceased to beat, but the prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them and prayers outlive the lives of those who uttered them; they outlive a generation, outlive an age, outlive a world.
- E.M. Bounds
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Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
- George Whitefield
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Let God have your life; He can do more with it than you can.
- Dwight L. Moody
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Why do we expect to be better treated in this world than Jesus was?
- Leonard Ravenhill
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When you understand that life is a test, you realize that nothing is insignificant in your life.
- Rick Warren
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We don't seek to escape this life by dreaming of heaven. But we do find we can endure this life because of the certainty of heaven. Heaven is eternal. Earth is temporal. Those who fix all their affections of the fleeting things of this world are the real escapists, because they are vainly attempting to avoid facing eternity - by hiding in the fleeting shadows of things that are only transient.
- John MacArthur
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In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
- A. W. Tozer
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Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
- Chuck Swindoll
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The question isn't were you challenged. The question is were you changed?
- Leonard Ravenhill
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You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman.
- Max Lucado
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If you have a Bible that’s falling apart, you’ll have a life that’s not.
- Adrian Rogers
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To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.
- Henry Blackaby
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Resolved to live with all my might while I do live, and as I shall wish I had done ten thousand ages hence.
- Jonathan Edwards
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All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
- Blaise Pascal
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No detail of your life is too insignificant for your heavenly Father’s attention.
- Jerry Bridges
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We are within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
- Blaise Pascal
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If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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The measure of a man's worth is the measure in which he no longer lives "to and for himself," but "to and for Jesus Christ." No more and no less!
- Major Ian Thomas
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If we walk away from risk to keep ourselves safe, we will waste our lives.
- John Piper
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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
- Corrie Ten Boom
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Never fear dying, beloved. Dying is the last, but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about. Fear living - that is a hard battle to fight, a stern discipline to endure, a rough voyage to undergo.
- Charles Spurgeon
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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
- George Washington Carver
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Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
- Helen Keller
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Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. Leave the rest to God.
- Ronald Reagan
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It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did ... for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.
- Frederick Buechner
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To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.
- Max Lucado
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Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come.
- Albert Barnes
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The world is not a play-ground; it is a school-room. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.
- Henry Drummond
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To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever. Hence, eternal life is inextricably bound up with love... Love must be eternal. It is what God is.
- Henry Drummond
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The secret of living a life of excellence is merely a matter of thinking thoughts of excellence. Really, it's a matter of programming our minds with the kind of information that will set us free.
- Chuck Swindoll
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Eternal life is not a peculiar feeling inside! It is not your ultimate destination, to which you will go when you are dead. If you are born again, eternal life is that quality of life that you possess right now.
- Major Ian Thomas
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What matters is not the duration of your life, but the donation of it.
- Rick Warren
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The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.
- Ravi Zacharias
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Some wonder how a person so pro-life as me could accept the law of a death penalty. But a death sentence is a result of a lengthy and thorough judicial process applied to a person deemed guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. That's far different from one person singularly deciding to end the life of a totally innocent and helpless unborn child. In that case, there is no process of justice, no evidence of guilt presented, no defense for the condemned child, and no appeal.
- Mike Huckabee
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
- G.K. Chesterton
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Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.
- Charles Kingsley
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We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
- A. W. Tozer
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In the sequel of our life's story we shall see that there was a meaning and necessity in all the previous incidents, save those which were the result of our own folly and sin, and that even these have been made to contribute to the final result.
- F.B. Meyer
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A providence is shaping our ends; a plan is developing in our lives; a supreme and loving Being is making all things work together for good.
- F.B. Meyer
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It ought to be placed in the forefront of all Christian teaching that Christ's mission on earth was to give men Life. "I am come," He said, "that ye might have Life, and that ye might have it more abundantly." And that He meant literal Life, literal spiritual and Eternal Life, is clear from the whole course of His teaching and acting.
- Henry Drummond
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The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.
- G.K. Chesterton
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God is down in front. He is in the tomorrows. It is tomorrow that fills men with dread. God is there already. All the tomorrows of our life have to pass Him before they can get to us.
- F.B. Meyer
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When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Savior. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.
- John Newton
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The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.
- Blaise Pascal
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There is nothing more impotent than words which lie dormant in our brains and have no influence on our lives.
- Alexander MacLaren
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There's a difference between changing your opinion, and changing your lifestyle.
- Leonard Ravenhill
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the "gotta have it" scale.
- Zig Ziglar
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I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones."
- Ravi Zacharias
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If our love were but more simple, we should take Him at his word, and our lives would be all sunshine in the sweetness of the Lord.
- Frederick W. Faber
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No one is to be despaired of as long as he breathes. (While there is life there is hope.)
- Desiderius Erasmus
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There are times when life, like a river, is over your head and you feel like you are drowning. Yet, the water from these very rivers wash away your filth. What the water does not remove, the fire purifies.
- Francis Frangipane
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When I was young, I said to God, "God, tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered, "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said, "God, tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said, "Well George, that's more nearly your size." And he told me.
- George Washington Carver
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God is the shaper of your heart. God does not display his work in abstract terms. He prefers the concrete, and this means that at the end of your life one of three things will happen to your heart: it will grow hard, it will be broken, or it will be tender. Nobody escapes.
- Ravi Zacharias
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Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.
- Blaise Pascal
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Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.
- Watchman Nee
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Take life all through, its adversity as well as its prosperity, its sickness as well as its health, its loss of its rights as well as its enjoyment of them, and we shall find that no natural sweetness of temper, much less any acquired philosophical equanimity, is equal to the support of a uniform habit of kindness.
- Frederick W. Faber
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Laughter and tears are the warp and woof of life. If you leave them out of preaching, you are leaving out life itself.
- Clovis G. Chappell
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To discover a flaw in our makeup is a chance to get rid of it, and add a new line of beauty to our life.
- Billy Sunday
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The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- C.S. Lewis
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Nature hath appointed the twilight, as a bridge, to pass us out of night into day.
- Thomas Fuller
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
- Thomas Aquinas
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Just as the nine months you spent in your mother's womb were not an end in themselves but preparation for life, so this life is preparation for the next.
- Rick Warren
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Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.
- Desiderius Erasmus
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I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest, and most precious thing in all thinking.
- George Macdonald
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Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
- Frederick Buechner
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Believing the right things about Jesus isn't enough. You're not adopted as God's child until you confess and turn away from your wrongdoing and receive the freely offered gift of forgiveness and eternal life that Jesus purchased with his death on the cross. Until you do that, you'll always be on the outside looking in.
- Lee Strobel
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Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life; meet every rising sun with such sentiments of God's goodness, as if you had seen it, and all things, new-created upon your account: and under the sense of so great a blessing, let your joyful heart praise and magnify so good and glorious a Creator.
- William Law
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The truest view of life has always seemed to me to be that which shows that we are here not to enjoy, but to learn.
- Frederick W. Robertson
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Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love.
- Henry Drummond
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
- C.S. Lewis
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God must be the very first thought and the very last thought in the life of every disciple of Jesus. God must be the centre as well as the circumference of our lives. We live and move in Him, within the circle that He has drawn for us. And within that circle we will always find Him (Acts 17:26,27).
- Zac Poonen
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Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Think amid your plans and anticipations of future gaiety what the redemption of your soul has cost, and how the dying Savior would wish you to act. His wounds plead that you will live for better things.
- Albert Barnes
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If you love your 'Truths' more than you love people, then you are an out-and-out Pharisee. Nothing less. And you will create condemnation and death in people, rather than 'conviction' and LIFE.
- Andrew Strom
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Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God's presence during dark seasons of questioning.
- Ravi Zacharias
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
- C.S. Lewis
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You were placed here to train for eternity. Your body was only intended to be a house for your immortal spirit. It is flying in the face of God's purposes to do as many do - to make the soul a servant to the body, and not the body a servant to the soul.
- J. C. Ryle
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If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.
- Alan Keyes
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The greatest adventure in life--knowing God--begins at the Cross of Christ and ends with a "Hallelujah!
- David Jeremiah
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Man appears for a little while to laugh and weep, to work and play, and then to go to make room for those who shall follow him in the never-ending cycle.
- A. W. Tozer
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
- Blaise Pascal
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Although we will never be perfect in this life, it's God's passionate desire to continually transform our hearts and lives to reflect the beauty, love and holiness of Jesus.
- Chip Ingram
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.
- Blaise Pascal
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I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan.
- Ronald Reagan
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Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.
- John C. Maxwell
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Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.
- John Henry Newman
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You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
- Frederick Buechner
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It is a glorious thing to know that your Father God makes no mistakes in directing or permitting that which crosses the path of your life. It is the glory of God to conceal a matter. It is our glory to trust Him, no matter what.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
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Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.
- Max Lucado
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Every life has dark tracks and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
- Alexander MacLaren
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He has seen but little of life who does not discern everywhere the effect of early education on men's opinions and habits of thinking. Children bring out of the nursery that which displays itself throughout their lives.
- Richard Cecil
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We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end.
- Blaise Pascal
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If I read my New Testament aright, and if I know God, and if I know humanity, and if I know Nature, then that is God's program. God's program is that the whole of life should be permeated with Christ.
- Gipsy Smith
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For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
- Thomas a Kempis
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For the Christian, worship is co-extensive with life. Life is already an expression of worship.
- Ravi Zacharias
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If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all.
- Frederick Buechner
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To make the best use of your life, you must never forget two truths: First, compared with eternity, life is extremely brief. Second, earth is only a temporary residence. You won't be here long, so don't get too attached.
- Rick Warren
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The fruit of the Spirit is not push, drive, climb, grasp and trample. Life is more than a climb to the top of the heap.
- Richard J. Foster
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Custom is our nature. What are our natural principles but principles of custom?
- Blaise Pascal
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If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
- Jerry Falwell
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Every natural longing has its natural satisfaction. If we thirst, God has created liquids to gratify thirst. If we are susceptible of attachment, there are beings to gratify that love. If we thirst for life and love eternal, it is likely that there are an eternal life and an eternal love to satisfy that craving.
- Frederick W. Robertson
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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
- William Barclay
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Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become filled on retirement.
- Dwight L. Moody
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I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
- Charles Spurgeon
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When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable) "toward the goal of true maturity" (Rom 12:2 JBP).
- Elisabeth Elliot
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Time is your most precious gift, because you only have a set amount of it.
- Rick Warren
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God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.
- Rick Warren
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Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
- Dwight L. Moody
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If God is your own, then all things in Heaven and on earth will be your own, because He is your Father and is everything to you; otherwise you will have to go and ask like a beggar for certain things. When they are used up, you will have to ask again. So ask not for gifts but for the Giver of Gifts: not for life but for the Giver of Life - then life and the things needed for life will be added unto you.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
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We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves; we desire to live an imaginary life in the minds of others, and for this purpose we endeavor to shine.
- Blaise Pascal
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It is a high, solemn, almost awful thought for every individual man, that his earthly influence, which has a commencement, will never, through all ages, have an end.
- James H. Aughey
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If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.
- Lee Strobel
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Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.
- Charles Spurgeon
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There are many seasons in a man's life - and the more exalted and responsible his position, the more frequently do these season's recur - when the voice of duty and the dictates of feeling are opposed to each other; and it is only the weak and the wicked who yield that obedience to the selfish impulses of the heart which is due to reason and honor.
- James H. Aughey
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God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Gullibility is the key to all adventures. The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
- G.K. Chesterton
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Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
- Desiderius Erasmus
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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.
- G.K. Chesterton
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To correspond with the God of Science, the Eternal Unknowable, would be everlasting existence; to correspond with "the true God and Jesus Christ," is Eternal Life. The quality of the Eternal Life alone makes the heaven; mere everlastingness might be no boon. Even the brief span of the temporal life is too long for those who spend its years in sorrow.
- Henry Drummond
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Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
- G.K. Chesterton
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Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.
- G.K. Chesterton
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The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
- Charles Kingsley
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When the world smiles upon us, and we have got a warm nest, how do we prophesy of rest and peace in those acquisitions, thinking with good Baruch, great things for ourselves, but Providence by a particular or general calamity overturns our plans (Jer. 45:4,5), and all this to turn our hearts from the creature to God.
- John Flavel
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As the soul, itself invisible, is seen by what it does through the body.
- Assorted Authors
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The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
- C.S. Lewis
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It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.
- Charles Spurgeon
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The easiest way to discover the purpose of an invention is to ask the creator of it. The same is true for discovering your life's purpose: Ask God.
- Rick Warren
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The purpose of existence is the pursuit of enjoyment...in God! Our desires, affections, pursuits, all that we say and do, all that we love or hate, are to be measured by this single criterion and subordinated to this one end: happiness in God.
- Sam Storms
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Each man has only a certain amount of life, of time, of attention--a definite measurable quantity. If he gives any of it to this life solely it is wasted. Therefore Christ says, Hate life, limit life, lest you steal your love for it from something that deserves it more.
- Henry Drummond
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Because the Scriptures say that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him, we need not conclude that a murderer cannot be saved. He can be if he will come to Christ and receive Him as Savior.
- Theodore Epp
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'Tis not for man to trifle; life is brief, and sin is here. We have no time to sport away the hours; all must be earnest in a world like ours.
- Horatius Bonar
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Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The world will never starve for want of wonders, but only for want of wonder.
- G.K. Chesterton
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I do not believe that one can earnestly seek and find the priceless treasure of God's call without a devout prayer life. That is where God speaks. The purpose of prayer and of God's call in your life is not to make you number one in the world's eyes, but to make him number one in your life. We must be willing to be outshone while shining for God. We hear very little about being smaller in our own self-estimate.
- Ravi Zacharias
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Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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You may never get totally rid of the flesh; however, you can overcome and make it powerless in your life if you are willing to live a spiritual life.
- Crystal McDowell
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Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.
- Rick Warren
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Here's the clear "science:" When the male sperm and female egg join, a new and unique life form is created. At conception. Not at birth or viability, or when a lawyer says so. At conception this happens.
- Mike Huckabee
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It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.
- Frederick W. Robertson
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Love should be the supreme thing--because it is going to last; because in the nature of things it is an Eternal Life. It is a thing that we are living now, not that we get when we die; that we shall have a poor chance of getting when we die unless we are living now.
- Henry Drummond
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Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality.
- C.S. Lewis
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
- Philip Yancey
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It is not a strange thing for the soul to find its life in God. This is its native air. God as the Environment of the soul has been from the remotest age the doctrine of all the deepest thinkers in religion. How profoundly Hebrew poetry is saturated with this high thought will appear when we try to conceive of it with this left out.
- Henry Drummond
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Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquility of thy life.
- Jeremy Taylor
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The neglected heart will soon be a heart overrun with worldly thoughts; the neglected life will soon become a moral chaos.
- A. W. Tozer
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Life becomes fuller and fuller, richer and richer, more and more sensitive and responsive to an ever-widening Environment as we rise in the chain of being.
- Henry Drummond
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The whole Christian life is a life in which the further a person progresses, the more he has to depend directly on God. The more we progress, the less we are self-sufficient. The more we progress, the poorer we get so that the man who has progressed most, is totally poor - he has to depend directly on God. He's got nothing left in himself.
- Thomas Merton
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No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.
- Alexander Whyte
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My life is a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand, as though I were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing, but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me.
- Thomas Merton
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We are so easily entangled in earthly affairs and so easily consumed with the desire for those things that do not last. We will not live on this earth forever, so even our trials should be viewed in the light of eternity.
- Theodore Epp
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Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if men were obliged to run down all the innuendos, inveracities, insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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All the while that thou livest ill, thou hast the trouble, distraction, and inconveniences of life, but not the sweet and true use of it.
- Thomas Fuller
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On the last analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth and life never faileth so long as there is love.
- Henry Drummond
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I see in this world two heaps--one of happiness, and the other of misery. Now, if I can take but the smallest bit from the second, and add it to the first, I carry a point. I should be glad indeed to do great things; but I will not neglect such little ones as this.
- John Newton
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It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
- G.K. Chesterton
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There is nothing quite as potent as a focused life, one lived on purpose.
- Rick Warren
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God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The soul is a living organism. And for any question as to the soul's Life we must appeal to Life-science. And what does the Life-science teach? That if I am to inherit Eternal Life, I must cultivate a correspondence with the Eternal.
- Henry Drummond
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Fancy and humor, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.
- Isaac Watts
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I would support and be willing to lead a Human Life Amendment to the constitution.
- Mike Huckabee
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The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
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Life is the cradle of eternity. As the man is to the animal in the slowness of his evolution, so is the spiritual man to the natural man. Foundations which have to bear the weight of an eternal life must be surely laid. Character is to wear forever; who will wonder or grudge that it cannot be developed in a day?
- Henry Drummond
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon
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Men are born to trouble at first, and exercised in it all their days. There is a cry at the beginning of life, and a groan at its close.
- Assorted Authors
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Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.
- Abraham Kuyper
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Do you find life too difficult for you? So did we, but not now, with the amplitudes of grace there are for us in Jesus Christ, it grows satisfying and successful and exciting beyond measure, becomes another and a richer thing.
- A. J. Gossip
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In a sense, all that belongs to Time belongs also to Eternity; but these lower correspondences are in their nature unfitted for an Eternal Life. Even if they were perfect in their relation to their Environment, they would still not be Eternal... An Eternal Life demands an Eternal Environment.
- Henry Drummond
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The relation between the spiritual man and his Environment is, in theological language, a filial relation. With the new Spirit, the filial correspondence, he knows the Father--and this is Life Eternal.
- Henry Drummond
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
- G.K. Chesterton
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They do not get their qualities from a class: they belong to that class because they have those qualities.
- C.S. Lewis
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There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
- Richard Cecil
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Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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God has a course mapped out for your life, and all the inadequacies in the world will not change His mind. He will be with you every step of the way. And though it may take time, He has a celebration planned for when you cross over the Red Seas of your life.
- Charles Stanley
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Many men would be religious if they knew where to begin; many would be more religious if they were sure where it would end. It is not indifference that keeps some men from God, but ignorance. "Good Master, what must I do to inherit Eternal Life?" is still the deepest question of the age.
- Henry Drummond
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When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Savior; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us.
- Albert Barnes
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There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.
- G.K. Chesterton
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When life has been well spent; when there is a conscience without reproach; when there is faith in the Savior; when there is a well-founded hope of heaven, there can be nothing that should disquiet us.
- Albert Barnes
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Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end - to the rest that remaineth for the people of God.
- Horatius Bonar
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Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.
- Frederick Buechner
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We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.
- Paul David Tripp
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Men may not know how fruits grow, but they do know that they cannot grow in five minutes. Some lives have not even a stalk on which fruits could hang, even if they did grow in five minutes. Some have never planted one sound seed of Joy in all their lives; and others who may have planted a germ or two have lived so little in sunshine that they never could come to maturity.
- Henry Drummond
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Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death.
- C.S. Lewis
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A lot of times in life we're all looking for that second chance. The kids I met tonight--who I'm representing have not even had their first chance. Some of these kids--I don't know how in the world they can do it without a mother or a father. What would I have done without my mother?
- Duane Chapman
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God, I pray Thee, light these idle sticks of my life that I may burn for Thee. Consume my life, my God, for it is Thine. I seek not a long life but a full one like You, Lord Jesus.
- Jim Elliot
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Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.
- G.K. Chesterton
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To smell a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.
- Thomas Fuller
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We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.
- Frederick Buechner
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[T]he Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were charged with new significance.
- Frederick Buechner
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The end of life is not to do good, although many of us think so. It is not to win souls, although I once thought so. The end of life is to do the will of God whatever it may be.
- Henry Drummond
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The calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.
- Isaac Watts
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A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
- Thomas Merton
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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.
- C.S. Lewis
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We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Martin Luther said once, 'If I were God, I'd kick the world to pieces.' But Martin Luther wasn't God. God is God, and God has never kicked the world to pieces. He keeps re-entering the world. He keeps offering himself to the world by grace, keeps somehow blessing the world, making possible a kind of life which we all, in our deepest being, hunger for.
- Frederick Buechner
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The natural life, not less than the eternal, is the gift of God. But life in either case is the beginning of growth and not the end of grace. To pause where we should begin, to retrograde where we should advance, to seek a mechanical security that we may cover inertia and find a wholesale salvation in which there is no personal sanctification--this is Parasitism.
- Henry Drummond
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Our yesterdays follow us; they constitute our life, and they give character and force and meaning to our present deeds.
- Assorted Authors
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Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of the heart.
- George Washington
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It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
- Thomas Merton
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
- Frederick Buechner
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Self-pity is a death that has no resurrection, a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.
- Elisabeth Elliot
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What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.
- G.K. Chesterton
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The hair is the richest ornament of women. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.
- Martin Luther
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Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
- Augustine
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To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.
- Frederick Buechner
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The stream of praying cannot rise higher than the fountain of living.
- E.M. Bounds
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You have been used to take notice of the sayings of dying men. This is mine: that a life spent in the service of God, and communion with Him, is the most comfortable and pleasant life that anyone can live in this world.
- Matthew Henry
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Pleasures come like oxen slow and heavily, and go away like post-horses, upon the spur.
- Joseph Hall
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May I govern my passions with absolute sway, and grow wiser and better as life wears away.
- Isaac Watts
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Degeneration is easy. Why is it easy? Why but that already in each man's very nature this principle is supreme? He feels within his soul a silent drifting motion impelling him downward with irresistible force.
- Henry Drummond
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The Bible offers three metaphors that teach us God's view of life: Life is a test, life is a trust and life is a temporary assignment.
- Rick Warren
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Ah! If our likeness to God does not show itself in trifles, what is there left for it to show itself in? For our lives are all made up of trifles. The great things come three or four of them in the seventy years; the little ones every time the clock ticks.
- Alexander MacLaren
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Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
- G.K. Chesterton
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Metaphysicians can unsettle things, but they can erect nothing. They can pull down a church, but they cannot build a hovel.
- Richard Cecil
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Ah! If our likeness to God does not show itself in trifles, what is there left for it to show itself in? For our lives are all made up of trifles. The great things come three or four of them in the seventy years; the little ones every time the clock ticks.
- Alexander MacLaren
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The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.
- Frederick W. Faber
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Never forget that life is not about you! You exist for God's purposes, not vise versa.
- Rick Warren
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There is no inconsistency in saying that God rewards good works, provided we understand that nevertheless men obtain eternal life gratuitously.
- John Calvin
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Think amid your plans and anticipations of future gaiety what the redemption of your soul has cost, and how the dying Savior would wish you to act. His wounds plead that you will live for better things.
- Albert Barnes
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Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
- Richard Cecil
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To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
- Origen
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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
- G.K. Chesterton
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What were we made for? To know God. What aim should we have in life? To know God. What is the eternal life that Jesus gives? To know God. What is the best thing in life? To know God. What in humans gives God most pleasure? Knowledge of himself.
- J.I. Packer
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Age is not all decay; it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.
- George Macdonald
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Our wishes are the true touchstone of our estate; such as we wish to be we are. Worldly hearts affect earthly things; spiritual, divine. We cannot better know what we are than by what we would be.
- Joseph Hall
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The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.
- C.S. Lewis
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We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.
- Thomas Fuller
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It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
- C.S. Lewis
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We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life - by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.
- Phillips Brooks
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Since this life is God's and cannot die, it follows that everyone born anew into possessing this life is said to have eternal life.
- Watchman Nee
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The Word of God tells us of the day when tears shall be gone forever. Until we come to that day, we move through this world in the midst of tears.
- Lee Roberson
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Alas! How easily things go wrong; a sigh too much or a kiss too long, and there follows a mist and a weeping rain, and life is never the same again.
- George Macdonald
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There is no one big will of God for your life; God has many wills for your life.
- Jack Hyles
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By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
- Thomas Aquinas
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The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world's weather.
- Frederick Buechner
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This world loses its appeal when the steps become tottering, when the hearing becomes dim, when the faded eyes cannot see as they once did. When loved ones are nearly all gone on ahead, then all the riches or fame or pleasures of this world are baubles and trash.
- John R. Rice
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To correspond with the God of Science, the Eternal Unknowable, would be everlasting existence; to correspond with "the true God and Jesus Christ," is Eternal Life. The quality of the Eternal Life alone makes the heaven; mere everlastingness might be no boon. Even the brief span of the temporal life is too long for those who spend its years in sorrow.
- Henry Drummond
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Those who are in communion with God live, those who are not are dead.
- Henry Drummond
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A man's life is always more forcible than his speech. When men take stock of him they reckon his deeds as dollars and his words as pennies. If his life and doctrine disagree the mass of onlookers accept his practice and reject his preaching.
- Charles Spurgeon
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We come into the world crying, we go through it complaining, and go out of it groaning!
- William Tiptaft
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Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.
- Joseph Hall
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The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.
- G.K. Chesterton
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My work is going to follow after me and yours is going to follow after you. Dear friend, I'm going to have about the same kind of works that follow after me that I had with me while I lived. There's no other way. Whether you like it or don't like it, if you live rotten, you are going to have some rotten works follow you.
- Lester Roloff
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To Christianity, "he that hath the Son of God hath Life, and he that hath not the Son hath not Life." This, as we take it, defines the correspondence which is to bridge the grave. This is the clue to the nature of the Life that lies at the back of the spiritual organism. And this is the true solution of the mystery of Eternal Life.
- Henry Drummond
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Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.
- Rick Warren
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There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
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What we have correspondence with, that we call natural; what we have little or no correspondence with, that we call Spiritual.
- Henry Drummond
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Before we reach an Eternal Life we must pass beyond that point at which all ordinary correspondences inevitably cease. We must find an organism so high and complex, that at some point in its development it shall have added a correspondence which organic death is powerless to arrest.
- Henry Drummond
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Thou sun, whose beams adorn the spheres, and with unwearied swiftness move to form the circles of our years.
- Isaac Watts
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
- Augustine
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Your actions, in passing, pass not away, for every good work is a grain of seed for eternal life.
- Assorted Authors
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God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of his providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together.
- Francois Fenelon
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The perplexity of life arises from there being too many interesting things in it for us to be interested properly in any of them.
- G.K. Chesterton
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We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Human life is fatally fragile and subject to forces beyond our power to manage. Life is tragic.
- Tim Keller
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The best test for Life is just LIVING. And living consists, as we have formerly seen, in corresponding with Environment. Those therefore who find within themselves, and regularly exercise, the faculties for corresponding with the Divine Environment, may be said to live the Spiritual Life.
- Henry Drummond
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Thou hast no life to lose, because thou hast given it already to Christ, nor can man take away that without God's leave.
- William Gurnall
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The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
- G.K. Chesterton
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The day that each person willingly accepts himself or herself for who he or she is and acknowledges the uniqueness of God's framing process marks the beginning of a journey to seeing the handiwork of God in each life.
- Ravi Zacharias
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I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
- G.K. Chesterton
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Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.
- Abraham Kuyper
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We will often find compensation if we think more of what life has given us and less about what life has taken away.
- William Barclay
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Francis Bacon
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So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
- John Newton
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Do you find life too difficult for you? So did we, but not now, with the amplitudes of grace there are for us in Jesus Christ, it grows satisfying and successful and exciting beyond measure, becomes another and a richer thing.
- A.J. Gossip
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No man's prayer is acceptable with God whose life is not well pleasing before God.
- Alexander Whyte
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God has a purpose in every life, and when the soul is completely yielded and acquiescent, He will certainly realize it. Blessed is he who has never thwarted the working of the divine ideal.
- F.B. Meyer
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You were made by God and for God, and until you understand that, life will never make sense.
- Rick Warren
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The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.
- G.K. Chesterton
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Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Life depends upon contact with Life. It cannot spring up out of itself. It cannot develop out of anything that is not Life. There is no Spontaneous Generation in religion any more than in Nature. Christ is the source of Life in the Spiritual World; and he that hath the Son hath Life, and he that hath not the Son, whatever else he may have, hath not Life.
- Henry Drummond
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Prayer is the vital breath of the Christian; not the thing that makes him alive, but the evidence that he is alive.
- Oswald Chambers
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Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
- Helen Keller
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I believe that life is given us so that we may grow in love, and I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the color and fragrance of a flower.
- Helen Keller
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The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
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Every life has dark tracks and long stretches of somber tint, and no representation is true to fact which dips its pencil only in light, and flings no shadows on the canvas.
- Alexander MacLaren
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To seize continuously the opportunity of more and more perfect adjustment to better and higher conditions, to balance some inward evil with some purer influence acting from without, in a word to make our Environment at the same time that it is making us--these are the secrets of a well-ordered and successful life.
- Henry Drummond
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There is nothing more impotent than words which lie dormant in our brains and have no influence on our lives.
- Alexander MacLaren
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We admit that we will never reach our ideal in this life, a distinctive the church claims that most other human institutions try to deny.
- Phillips Brooks
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You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
- George Macdonald
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Every day is a little life, and our whole life is but a day repeated. Therefore live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day, are dangerously prodigal; those that dare misspend it are desperate.
- Joseph Hall
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Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.
- Henry Drummond
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Nothing will enter your life that God does not either decree or allow. And nothing will ever enter your life that, if you are willing to trust in him, he cannot work out for your good.
- Chip Ingram
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We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life - by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.
- Philip Yancey
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Let your sleep be necessary and healthful, not idle and expensive of time beyond the needs and conveniences of nature; and sometimes be curious to see the preparation the sun makes when he is coming forth from his chambers in the east.
- Jeremy Taylor
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Many cases can be cited to illustrate how the Lord's people are entangled in "organization," to the detriment of their life.
- Watchman Nee
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To seize continuously the opportunity of more and more perfect adjustment to better and higher conditions, to balance some inward evil with some purer influence acting from without, in a word to make our Environment at the same time that it is making us--these are the secrets of a well-ordered and successful life.
- Henry Drummond
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- G.K. Chesterton
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The final preparation ... for the inheriting of Eternal Life must consist in the abandonment of the non-eternal elements. These must be unloosed and dissociated from the higher elements, And this is affected by a closing catastrophe--Death.
- Henry Drummond
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If the Declaration of Independence states our creed, there can be no right to abortion, since it means denying the most fundamental right of all to the unborn child, the right to life.
- Alan Keyes
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You cannot really have the world and hold on to it. It is all too temporary and the more you try to hold on to it, the more it actually holds you. By contrast, the more you hold on to the true and the good, the more you are free to really live.
- Ravi Zacharias
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You have eternity to enjoy the honeymoon, but only a short time to prepare for the wedding.
- Woodrow Kroll
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Life, if properly viewed in any aspect, is great, but mainly great when viewed in its relation to the world to come.
- Albert Barnes
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It is a fact of Christian experience that life is a series of troughs and peaks. In His efforts to get permanent possession of the soul, God relies on the troughs more than the peaks. And some of His special favorites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else.
- Peter Marshall
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The deep undertone of the world is sadness - a solemn bass, occurring at measured intervals and heard through all other tones. Ultimately, all the strains of this world's music resolve themselves into that tone; and I believe that, rightly felt, the cross, and the cross alone, interprets the mournful mystery of life, the sorrow of the Highest - the Lord of Life, the result of error and sin, but ultimately remedial, purifying and exalting.
- Frederick W. Robertson
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Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
- Francis Schaeffer
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We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
- William Law
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An 'unintended pregnancy' could be a wonderful surprise, not planned but welcome. Why should the government be in the business of 'preventing' a surprising but welcome pregnancy?
- Wendy Wright
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
- J.I. Packer
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Since trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs; since life's best joys consist in peace and ease, and few can save or serve, but all may please: let the ungentle spirit learn from thence, a small unkindness is a great offense.
- Hannah More
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.
- George Washington
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Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason.
- Rick Warren
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Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
- G.K. Chesterton
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