If your heart is beautiful, your face will be beautiful, your life will be beautiful, everything will be beautiful.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.

If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe.

Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.

The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause.

War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.

Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative or unsuccessful people.

A lack of money is never, ever, ever a problem. A lack of money is merely a symptom of what is going on underneath.

We should develop a deep appreciation for all the we have, and not waste it, otherwise we'll die with deep regrets.

The real spiritual power is enabling beings to realize the nature of the mind. That's the power of Buddha activity.

Chain-mail isn't much defence against an arrow. It certainly isn't when the arrow is being aimed between your eyes.

Have a bit more patience with newbies. Of course some of them act dumb - they're often students, for heaven's sake.

And all the stories had, somewhere, the witch. The wicked old witch. And Tiffany had thought: Where's the evidence?

It is possibly worth mentioning at this point that Mr. Young thought that paparazzi was a kind of Italian linoleum.

Granny Weatherwax was not a good loser. From her point of view, losing was something that happened to other people.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

Ideals are like the stars - you can't touch them with your hands, but by following them you reach your destination.

May we all make the journey to Bethlehem in spirit, taking with us a tender caring heart as our gift to the Savior.

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

Yeah, there's some unlikely beasts in the world, and it's best to stay near the ones that you've bought drinks for.

If you say: I believed in God, I trusted God and He didn't come through - You only trusted God to meet your agenda.

The more you understand how your salvation isn't about your behavior, the more radically your behavior will change.

If you love anything in this world more than God, you will crush that object under the weight of your expectations.

The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

Any person who only sticks with Christianity as long as things are going his or her way, is a stranger to the cross

What greater value could you possibly have than to be delighted in and sacrificed for by the Maker of the universe.

If you can't show the difference between religion and the Gospel, people will confuse morality with a changed heart

Even if our own troubles are great, we should still serve. Jesus washed His disciples feet on the way to the cross.

The most liberating act of free, unconditional grace demands that the recipient give up control of his or her life.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

I don't see how anybody could have a passion for nature without having an equally developed tolerance for the cold.

When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists

If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.

Everybody is going to be what they are, and whatever they are, there's not going to be anything to apologize about.

Life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve.

I do believe I am special. My special gift is my vision, my commitment, and my willingness to do whatever it takes.

Your emotions are nothing but biochemical storms in your brain and you are in control of them at any point in time.

Energy is not only the basis of our existence, it is the fuel that makes everything in our lives real and possible.

The words, when they came to my heart, were so gentle, and familiar -- and so very sad: What is this you have done?

Consequences don’t just go away. They aren’t suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series.

Offal and offcuts such as head and feet can be picked up for next to nothing, and eating them helps to avoid waste.

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