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The world is full of small ignorances. We must all do our best to ignore them and thereby keep them small, don't you think
You can be a great model, an average one, or a bad model. You may think it doesn't matter to you, but it does to the Lord.
Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.
We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
As for me, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are now only the subtlest imaginable essences, which would not stain the morning sky.
I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.
The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.
A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence.
He who eats the fruit should at least plant the seed; ay, if possible, a better seed than that whose fruit he has enjoyed.
I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.
Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter.
Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.
In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.
Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.
Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.
Michele Bachmann... I'm not going to say it. I'm not going to say it.... Tutti-frutti. I know I'm going to get in trouble!
About the nicest thing God ever invented was alcohol. He's proud of it, too. The Bible's full of kind remarks about booze.
I've always felt as much outside the Jewish experience as in it. It astonished my family that I wrote about things Jewish.
The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?
As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.
The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.
Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.
Until you go to Kentucky and with your own eyes behold the Derby, you ain't never been nowhere and you ain't seen nothin'!
There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.
What children need is the conviction that satisfaction can and must be earned. ... Spoiled children do not learn the must.
What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.
In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less.
A man knows what he likes, so sex with some men is like sex with a mind reader, someone who knows exactly how you like it.
Our problem is not too little time, but making better use of the time we have. Each of us has as much time as anyone else.
Without being aware of it, you take many things as being your identity: your body, your race, your beliefs, your thoughts.
The way I treat my body is not disconnected from the way I treat my family or the commitment I have to peace on our earth.
Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.
Managers often hold on to resisters because of a specific skill set or because they've been around for a long time. Don't.
If freedom means anything at all, it is the right to primacy in regard to sexuality, reproduction, medical care and death.
We pick bygone time up by the handfuls and, like clay, see if it feels right and then form it into stories about the past.
If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government.
Most people will look back and realize they did not have a great life because it's just so easy to settle for a good life.
I don't believe that homosexuals really want to marry, most of them. They're all different, and some have different views.
Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.
You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.
I call it the birth vision - what we are called to accomplish. If we follow this calling, we help spiritualize the planet.
She knew what he had in mind. He'll propose in Scotland on my birthday. There was no doubt as to what her answer would be.
My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers.
Biblically sound, faithful, and intellectually satisfying theology that will . . . cure many current theological concerns.