"It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow."

Coolidge, Calvin on worship
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"Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions."

Disraeli, Benjamin on religion
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"When you are happy you can forgive a great deal."

Diana, Princess of Wales on forgiveness
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"Let the motive be in the deed and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward."

Kreeshna on war
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"Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another."

Hill, Napoleon on thoughts and thinking
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"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes."

Larson, Doug on friends and friendship
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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."

Hill, Napoleon on sacrifice
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"Don't wait. The time will never be just right."

Hill, Napoleon on procrastination
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"Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others."

Unknown, Source on time
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"Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future."

Rohn, Jim on experience
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"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

Ward, William A. on planning
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"By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn."

Proverb, Latin on learning
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"Don't just learn the tricks of the trade. Learn the trade."

Bennis, James on learning
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"Gratitude is our most direct line to God and the angels. If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for. The more we seek gratitude, the more reason the angels will give us for gratitude and joy to exist in our lives."

Taylor, Terry Lynn on gratitude
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"Who we are never changes. Who we think we are does."

Almanac, Mary S. on change
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"Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth."

Aesop on appearance
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"Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something."

Buscaglia, Leo on change
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"Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away."

Dewar, Canon Lindsay on influence
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"The Lord doesn't ask about your ability, only your availability; and, if you prove your dependability, the Lord will increase your capability."

Unknown, Source on integrity
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"Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance."

Johnson, Samuel on perseverance
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"My prayer to God is a very short one: O Lord, make my enemies look ridiculous! God has granted it."

Voltaire on prayer   

"They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love."

Shakespeare, William on love
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"God is infinite and without end, but the soul's desire is an abyss which cannot be filled except by a Good which is infinite; and the more ardently the soul longeth after God, the more she wills to long after him; for God is a Good without drawback, and a well of living water without bottom, and the soul is made in the image of God, and therefore it is created to know and love God."

Tauler, Johannes on god   

"No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness -- or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it."

Beecher, Henry Ward on present
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"Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence."

Mandino, Og on appreciation
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"God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit."

Haggai, John on god
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"Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures."

Addison, Joseph on patience
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"Grace means the free, unmerited, unexpected love of God, and all the benefits, delights, and comforts which flow from it. It means that while we were sinners and enemies we have been treated as sons and heirs."

Hanson, R. P. C. on grace
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"Grace is free sovereign favor to the ill-deserving."

Warfield, Benjamin B. on grace
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"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."

Socrates on death
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"Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us."

Socrates on prayer
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"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn'"

Lewis, C. S. on difficulties
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"Blessed is the man who finds out which way God is moving and then gets going in the same direction."

Unknown, Source on god
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"May God bless you to live as long as you want to; and want to as long as you live!"

Proverb, Scottish on life   

"Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk."

Ward, William A. on change   

"Blessed is the servant who loves his brother as much when he is sick and useless as when he is well and an be of service to him. And blessed is he who loves his brother as well when he is afar off as when he is by his side, and who would say nothing behind his back he might not, in love, say before his face."

Francis of Assisi, St. on integrity
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"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty."

Marshall, Peter on trials
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"Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate."

Ward, William A. on leadership
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"Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God."

Calvin, John on churches
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"The root of almost every schism and heresy from which the Christian Church has suffered, has been because of the effort of men to earn, rather than receive their salvation; and the reason preaching is so commonly ineffective is, that it often calls on people to work for God rather than letting God work through them."

Ruskin, John on churches
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