"Not all who wander are lost"

Tolkien, J. R. on
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"The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men."

Pascal, Blaise on originality
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"Law, without force, is impotent."

Pascal, Blaise on law and lawyers   

"One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner."

Bunyan, John on sin   

"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on jesus christ
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"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

Gandhi, Mahatma on jesus christ
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"Jesus says, I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are."

Lyons, Chris on jesus christ
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"I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment."

Mother Teresa on jesus christ
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"Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair."

Pascal, Blaise on jesus christ
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"The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory."

Pascal, Blaise on effort
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"Evil is easy, and has infinite forms."

Pascal, Blaise on evil   

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"Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other."

Pascal, Blaise on faith
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"Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them."

Pascal, Blaise on faith   

"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants."

Pascal, Blaise on freedom
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"If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world."

Pascal, Blaise on gossip   

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"The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing: we know this in countless ways."

Pascal, Blaise on art
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"If you would have people speak well of you, then do not speak well of yourself."

Pascal, Blaise on humility
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"That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love."

Wordsworth, William on deeds and good deeds
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"In tribulation immediately draw near to God with confidence, and you will receive strength, enlightenment, and instruction."

John of the Cross, St. on confidence   

"Man proposes, but God disposes."

Kempis, Thomas on god
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"Don't think so much about who is for or against you, rather give all your care, that God be with you in everything you do."

Kempis, Thomas on god
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"If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine."

Kempis, Thomas on art   

"Be not angry that you cannot make another what you wish them to be; since you cannot make yourself what you wish to be."

Kempis, Thomas on influence
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"Remember, your prerogative is to govern, and not to serve the things of this world."

Kempis, Thomas on memory   

"It is much safer to obey, than to govern."

Kempis, Thomas on obedience   

"The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own."

Kempis, Thomas on self-esteem
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"The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself."

Kempis, Thomas on self-understanding   

"Many deceive themselves, imagining they'll find happiness in change."

Kempis, Thomas on change
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"Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere."

Kempis, Thomas on freedom   

"Don't flatter the rich, or appear to willing before the great."

Kempis, Thomas on flattery
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"The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still."

Tozer, A. W. on evil
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"If God gives you a watch, are you honoring Him more by asking Him what time it is or by simply consulting the watch?"

Tozer, A. W. on god
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"An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others."

Tozer, A. W. on god   

"What I believe about God is the most important thing about me."

Tozer, A. W. on god   

"Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our accepting and willing are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God."

Tozer, A. W. on grace   

"No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be."

Tozer, A. W. on happiness   

"The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions."

Tozer, A. W. on hell   

"To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men."

Tozer, A. W. on trials
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"Adversities do not make a man frail. They show what sort of man he is."

Kempis, Thomas on adversity
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"We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are."

Kempis, Thomas on temptation
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