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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.
To want not to want, you'll tie yourself in knots. So this is why the Tibetans always say, just relax the mind and open.
It doesn't matter if dragons are flying overhead or whatever - a lot of Victoriana is still cut in the frame of fantasy.
I dare say that quite a few people have contemplated death for reasons that much later seemed to them to be quite minor.
I've never really liked the Yanks. ... You can't trust people who pick up the ball all the time when they play football.
The author can always delve into his own personality and find aspects of himself with which he can dress his characters.
What is private belongs to me alone. What is personal belongs to all of us through the shared experience of being human.
The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'
Debt is the secret foe of thrift, as vice and idleness are its open foes. The debt habit is the twin brother of poverty.
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
Be thou what thou singly art and personate only thyself. Swim smoothly in the stream of thy nature and live but one man.
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree
Happiness comes when we stop complaining about the troubles we have and offer thanks for all the troubles we don't have.
So much in life depends on our attitude. The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.
May we give as the Savior gave. To give of oneself is a holy gift. We give as a remembrance of all the Savior has given.
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.
God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you're afraid I will not give you what you need?
There are some needs only you can see. There are some hands only you can hold. There are some people only you can reach.
A life of gratitude to God for being saved is far more pleasing than a life based on self-righteousness over being good.
Our character is mainly shaped by our primary social community - the people with whom we eat, play, converse, and study.
Accepted in Christ, we now run the race 'for the joy that is set before us' rather than 'for fear that comes behind us'.
The very fact that we have access to God's attention and presence should concentrate the thoughts and elevate the heart.
Jesus smashed two of the rich young ruler's assumptions: Christianity is something you can ADD and something you can DO.
If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.
Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying?
The reality is that a person who has always struggled with numbers is unlikely to be a great accountant or statistician.
I soon abandoned the question of who Kurban Said or Essad Bey was for the more problematic one - who was Lev Nussimbaum?
If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering.
You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.
We think we can't survive without deficit spending - but we soon won't be able to survive with deficit spending, either.
The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Making a true decision means committing to achieving a result, and then cutting yourself off from any other possibility.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.
Most people aren't really happy, but they aren't unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place to be.
What's talked about is a dream, What's envisioned is exciting, What's planned become possible, What's scheduled is real.
How mighty, how great the One must be, I thought, to send the heavens careening, and yet hear the cry of a single heart.
The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby.
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.
You must not change one thing, one pebble, one grain of sand, until you know what good and evil will follow on that act.
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.
Jesus Christ demands more complete allegiance than any dictator who ever lived. The difference is, He has a right to it.
Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
Population control is not an issue involving contraceptives for third world women. It is an issue of ecological justice.