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It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Own Others Our Easy Importance Overestimate Very Owe Achievements Comparison
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it? Johann Kaspar Lavater
You Yourself Speak Evil Telling Someone Know Am Ask Certain Why
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain. John Calvin
God Man Mind Will Own Some Superstition He Like Idol Idolatry His Brain Forge Store Forsake Much Certain Believes
This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people. John Wycliffe
Government Bible People For The People By The People
To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings. Mary Baker Eddy
Today Big Those Blessings Leaning Infinite Sustaining
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. Paul Tillich
Alone Loneliness Solitude Word Language Pain Our Sides Wisely Glory Being Sensed Being Alone Created Express Two
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. Reinhold Niebuhr
Man Own About Perfection Sin Conceiving Him Makes His Achieving Which Capable Incapable Original Original Sin Thing
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved. Thomas Aquinas
Church Men Saved Possible Find Outside Noah Ark Salvation Just Anyone Which
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end. Tryon Edwards
Death Pleasures Poisoned Like Sinful Forbidden End May Bread Them Moment Appetite Satisfy
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. William Barclay
Life Determines Importance Eternity Awful
A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint. Albert Schweitzer
Man Angel Does Saint Order
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid. Albert Schweitzer
You Somebody Everyday Something Get Which Paid
The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
You Happy Will Those Only Sought How Really Who Found Serve Among
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile. Albert Schweitzer
Man Animal Clever Imbecile Like Behaves Who
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives. Albert Schweitzer
Life Man Able Only Compulsion He Truly Anything Which Ethical Help Injuring Lives Shrinks Assist
Human love has little regard for the truth. It makes the truth relative, since nothing, not even the truth, must come between it and the beloved person. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Love Truth Nothing Relative Must Between Since Come Makes Person Human Regard Little Human Love Even Beloved
Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes. E. Stanley Jones
Freedom Mistakes Living Temptation Freedom From Does Nor Mean Victorious
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. John Owen
Food Man Destruction Poison Temptation Throat Knife Like Exercise His May Either Cut Meat
When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.' Oswald Chambers
God Say Spirit Never Almighty Question
Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith. Paul Tillich
Life God Faith Reality Meaning Of Life Earnestly Consists Vitally Give Name Concerned Verge Ultimate Reflects Being Which Meaning Meaning Of Act Whoever
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt. Paul Tillich
God Courage Anxiety Doubt Disappeared Rooted Who Appears
Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity. Reinhold Niebuhr
Humanity Behavior Evil Collective Back Individual
If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature. Said Nursi
Beautiful You Most Beautiful Will Paradise Beauty Spring Worship Respond Eye Visualize See Majesty Most Understand May Whole Belief Creature Utter Everlasting
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will. Thomas Aquinas
Happiness Good Man Will Own Virtue Secured Through Attained
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder. Thomas Aquinas
Big Lover Philosopher Philosophers Philosophy Way Alike Fables Poetic Poets Myths Arises Bound Because His His Way Wonder Being Awe
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. Thomas Aquinas
Man Own Others Consider Hesitation Possession Share Without Material His Common Them Should Need
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