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The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. John Henry Newman
Love Men Our Only Exercise Private Friends Preparatory
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature. John Henry Newman
Great Memory Mind More Piece Make Does Than Dictionary Any Literature
Being deeply contented with God in my everyday life is a focused attitude. It is always available. It means practicing letting go of my obsession with how I'm doing. It means training myself to learn to actually be present with people, and seeking to love them. John Ortberg
Life Love Attitude God Myself People Training Everyday Life Life Is A Everyday Focused Seeking Obsession Learn Contented Practicing Always How Doing Go Being Available To Love Them Means Letting Letting Go Deeply Actually Present
Sin carries in it its own misery. John Piper
Own Carries Misery Sin
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down? John Shelby Spong
Life Build Action Down Morality Does Denigrate Up Tear Enhance Basis
Prayer is as natural an expression of faith as breathing is of life. Jonathan Edwards
Life Faith Prayer Natural Breathing Expression
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. Jonathan Edwards
Travel Natural Our Way Though Must Bias Content Contrary Uphill Heaven Tiresome Ascending Flesh Hard
Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of relationships within a religious community that makes it the best tutorial in citizenship and good neighborliness. Jonathan Sacks
Best Good Religion Community Relationships Citizenship Religious About Something Self Tenor Towards Within Altruism Makes Common Common Good Us Creates Turns Away
God doesn't want us to have rigid rituals with Him. In the new covenant, He is more interested in having a relationship with us. Joseph Prince
God Relationship Rigid Having More Rituals He New Him Covenant Want Interested Us
Our communications reflect in our countenance. Therefore, we must be careful not only what we communicate, but also how we do so. Souls can be strengthened or shattered by the message and the manner in which we communicate. L. Lionel Kendrick
Communicate Reflect Our Must Be Careful Only Countenance Shattered Also Message Souls How Which Communications Manner Therefore Strengthened Careful
I get one hour, really 25 minutes in a sermon on a weekend, to combat all the hours of the week that people are told you are what you have through billboards, commercials, and sitcoms, and so forth. Max Lucado
You People Minutes Week Weekend Through Combat Hour Hours Commercials Get Sitcoms Forth Really Billboards Sermon
There is the illusion of the world and the reality of the Torah. Meir Kahane
Reality World Illusion Torah
One of the great problems with Americans is that - being a decent people - they assume that everyone else is equally decent. Meir Kahane
Great People Problems Assume Else Everyone Everyone Else Equally American Decent Decent People Being
You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less. Mike Murdock
You Will Increases Toward Makes Always Move Anyone Less Who Away
Trust is a product of test over time. Myles Munroe
Time Trust Over Test Product
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind. Norman Vincent Peale
Life You Enthusiasm Back Kind Give Attract Does Zest
Don't take tomorrow to bed with you. Norman Vincent Peale
You Tomorrow Take Bed
The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person. Pema Chodron
You Will Control Pretty Scary More Buddha Idea Balanced Person Taught Happier Which Much Compassionate Actually Things
Human nature must be changed if we are ever to have an end to war or to correct the wrong situations that make our lives uneasy and our hearts sore. Now Christianity, the power of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit of God, is the only force that can change people for good. Peter Marshall
War God Good Nature Change People Christ Power Human Nature Christianity Changed Our Our Lives Correct Must Spirit Only Wrong Sore Force Make End Uneasy Hearts Situations Human Holy Holy Spirit Now Ever Lives Jesus Jesus Christ
Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work. Peter Marshall
Work Patience Wait Disciplines Lord Than Often Us Teach Harder
A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. Phillips Brooks
Silence Man Words Power More More Power Another His Than Who Lives Right
To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility. Pope Benedict XVI
Today Me Interior Matter Ethics Values Responsibility Own Reciprocal Visible Solidarity Seems Something Rather Could Take Economy Principle Does Itself Account Human Cannot Which Really Function Technical Human Values Exterior
To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy. Pope Francis
God You Say Blasphemy Name
When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while. Pope Francis
Girl Uncle Beauty Met Wedding Over Well Surprised Intellectual Quite Quite A While While Her Brilliance
A dimple on the chin, the devil within. Pope Paul VI
Devil Within Chin
When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation. Radhanath Swami
Life Wisdom Strength You Courage Spirituality Destroy Weaker Gives Could Person Storms Your Who Many Foundation Basis
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