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The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
Be not weary in well-doing. … Out of small things proceedeth that which is great. Behold, the Lord requireth the heart and a willing mind.
Our Father's commitment to us, His children, is unwavering. Indeed He softens the winters of our lives, but He also brightens our summers.
Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.
The bee himself did not evade the schoolboy more than she evaded me, and even at this day I still stand somewhat bewildered, like the boy.
I'm very often described as a 'risk-taker' and 'extreme,' and there are a few examples of that, certainly in the physical experimentation.
The cross is the place where we find the freedom to accept ourselves without being proud and to challenge ourselves without being crushed.
The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.
Jesus is not asking us to do anything for him that he hasn’t already done for us, under conditions of difficulty beyond our comprehension.
That combination of thought and action defines creative confidence: the ability to come up with new ideas and the courage to try them out.
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.
Fire is the reuniting of matter with oxygen. If one bears that in mind, every blaze may be seen as a reunion, an occasion of chemical joy.
No matter how difficult the situation is, it won't last forever. What follows the night is the day. What follows the winter is the spring.
Take thoughts and turn them into actions, turn them into results, turn your dreams into reality. That's really the science of achievement.
I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.
All goal setting must be immediately followed by both the development of a plan, and massive and consistent action toward its fulfillment.
If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.
Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, and my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.
The number one key to success in life is to master your own state. If you can manage and master your states, there's nothing you can't do.
In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
What we love usually manages to get into our conversation. What is down in the well of the heart will come up in the bucket of the speech.
Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.
Somehow the idea has gotten around that it is unchristian to take a stand against heresy. Some of us need to read the New Testament again.
When Christ possesses the will He keeps it fixed. The trouble comes when we take matters out of His hand and try to handle them ourselves.
I do have fun. Even when Im fighting Im enjoying it: I think theres nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.
Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.
We must get to the point in our lives. What is the point? To become a new kind of man or woman, having inner command and outer excellence.
Am I the only one who secretly hopes that the Curiosity rover will be swallowed up by a giant alien worm living just below Mars's surface?
To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
More leaders have been made by accident, circumstance, sheer grit, or will than have been made by all the leadership courses put together.
Do we not realize that the basic condition for a spiritual walk is to fear our self and its wisdom and to rely absolutely upon the Spirit?
When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out, because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.
I really think I am where I am in spite of my training, not because of it. I don't know how unique my work is, because I never compare it.
...for Paul faith is always faith in a person. Faith is not the intellectual acceptance of a body of doctrine; faith is faith in a person.
Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.
Business demands faith, compels earnestness, requires courage, is honestly selfish, is penalized for mistakes, and is the essence of life.
The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.
It were happy if we studied nature more in natural things; and acted according to nature, whose rules are few, plain, and most reasonable.
It is becoming impossible for those who mix at all with their fellow-men to believe that the grace of God is distributed denominationally.
The problem with certainty is that sometimes it can sound cold and heartless, although it is the most compassionate and supportive answer.
It seems to me that before the photograph can exist as art it must, by its very nature choose whether it is to be a record or a testimony.
Part of your purpose in life is to build strong and fruitful relationships with others, and your work setting is a perfect place to start.
Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.
Obama repeatedly has condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.
The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging.
The world is waiting to hear an authentic voice, a voice from God- not an echo of what others are doing and saying, but an authentic voice.