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Decision is a risk rooted in the courage of being free.
Paul Tillich
Courage
Decision
Free
Risk
Being
Rooted
Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.
Thomas Aquinas
Spiritual
Man
Joy
Become
Live
Addicted
Carnal
Pleasures
He
True
Joys
Without
Cannot
Deprived
Therefore
Necessary
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Albert Schweitzer
Man
Own
Creation
Recognize
Devils
His
Even
Hardly
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
Albert Schweitzer
Life
Ethics
Compassion
Before
Beginning
Other
Everything
Reverent
Than
Foundation
I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.
Albert Schweitzer
Thought
Some
Misery
Firmly
Always
End
Little
Us
Held
Each
Each One
Portion
Bring
Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
Albert Schweitzer
Truth
Time
Brainy
Own
Hour
Always
Special
Special Time
Now
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become.
Brooke Foss Westcott
Great
Eyes
Strong
Heroes
Men
Become
Cowards
Weak
Crisis
Some
Imperceptibly
Simply
Make
Occasions
Unveil
Wake
Them
Shows
Grow
Last
Sleep
It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Oswald Chambers
Spiritual
People
Determines
Unseen
Outward
Actual
When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.
Oswald Chambers
Man
Reality
Cowardly
Way
Touch
Only
He
Wits
Pray
His
End
Get
Thing
We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea.
Paul Tillich
Clouds
Words
Speak
Trees
Waves
Respond
Voice
Through
Without
Leaves
Moving
Sea
Murmuring
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich
Maturity
Awareness
Symptom
Definite
Highest
Failures
Well
Ambiguity
Achievements
Deepest
Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Beautiful
Faith
Good
History
Sense
Nothing
Saved
Complete
Immediate
Must
True
Makes
Context
Any
Which
Therefore
Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Hope
Worth
Nothing
Saved
Must
Lifetime
Doing
Achieved
Therefore
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
Life
Own
Consists
Direction
Somewhat
Highest
Dead
Another
Always
Subject
Governs
Being
Which
Manifestation
Actions
Thing
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
Thomas Aquinas
Hope
Faith
Seen
Hand
Things
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
Thomas Aquinas
People
Some People
Suitable
Others
Appropriate
Virtuous
Immoral
Some
Diverse
Because
Conditions
Same
Happens
While
Them
Inappropriate
Acts
Humans
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
Thomas Aquinas
Religion
You
Christ
Looking
Way
Take
He
Himself
Because
Go
Which
Then
Should
A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
Albert Schweitzer
Life
Man
Plants
Men
Animals
Only
Sacred
He
Fellow
Him
Himself
Fellow Men
His
Ethical
Help
Plants And Animals
Need
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Politics
Christian
Task
Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth.
Jakob Bohme
Love
God
Love Is
Sense
Virtue
Virtues
Higher
Highest
Principle
Greater
Greatest
God Love
Than
Whence
Being
While
Forth
Certain
Flow
Reject hatred without hating.
Mary Baker Eddy
Hatred
Hating
Without
Reject
The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
Orson Pratt
God
Government
Nature
Soul
Will
Every
Thoroughly
Characteristics
Rightly
Kingdom
General
Only
Instructed
Redeem
Form
Regard
Which
Mankind
Theocracy
Should
Necessary
Save
You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
Oswald Chambers
God
You
Amazing
Will
Earth
Inside
Never
Most
Amazed
Cease
Person
Done
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Life
Wisdom
Achievement
Final
Above
Within
Requires
Serenity
Incongruity
All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Consequences
Worse
Seems
Sin
Than
Human
Intentions
Much
Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.
Albert Schweitzer
Human Being
Consists
Purpose
Never
Sacrificing
Human
Being
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