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The Holocaust remains unique in contemporary Jewish consciousness for its capacity to engender the most visceral grief and abject pain. Ephraim Mirvis

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My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed. Francis Asbury

Soul Rest More My Soul Employed Am Busily

There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee. Francis Chan

Fruit Abide Pursuit Periods Him Forget Just Then Guarantee

I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people. Francis Chan

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Churchgoers in America are notorious for jumping into movements, even ideas that are hard to listen to. But when they actually have to change their lifestyle and do something about it, it rarely translates into action. Francis Chan

Change Action Rarely About Something Lifestyle Ideas Jumping America Listen Movements Hard Notorious Even Actually

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure. Francois Fenelon

We always long for the forbidden things, and desire what is denied us. Francois Rabelais

Long Forbidden Always Denied Us Things Desire

Next, in importance to books are their titles. Frank Crane

Books Importance Titles Next

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. Frederick Buechner

God World Drops Occasionally Saints His Handkerchief Holy

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly. Frederick William Robertson

Think Poetry Feel Make Truly Office Accurately Us

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table. Gene Robinson

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Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best. Gene Robinson

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The human element should be the two players on the court, not the officials. The best officials are the ones you never notice. The nature of the game made officials too noticeable a part. Gene Scott

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If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it. George A. Smith

Life God Heart Will Believe Vain Guard Seem Himself Should

If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes. George Muller

God Great Heart Wait Word Made Mistakes Before Great Mistakes Counsel Instruction Were Did Lacking Patiently Preferred Honest

A child rightly trained may be a world-wide blessing, with an influence reaching onward to eternal years. But a neglected or misdirected directed child may live to blight and blast mankind, and leave influences of evil which shall roll on in increasing volume till they plunge into the gulf of eternal perdition. George Muller

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How important it is to ascertain the will of God, before we undertake anything, because we are then not only blessed in our own souls, but also the work of our hands will prosper. George Muller

Work God Will Blessed Important Before Own Our Only Prosper Also Because Souls How Undertake Hands Anything Ascertain Then

To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word. George Muller

The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus. George Muller

Power Must Seek Individual Through Sin Over Likewise His Blood Sins Get Forgiven Who Jesus Desires

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