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John Henry Newman: Ability hits the...

John Henry Newman: Ability hits the...

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

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John Henry Newman: We can believe...

John Henry Newman: We can believe...

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

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Martin Buber: I do, indeed,...

Martin Buber: I do, indeed,...

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and...

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Martin Buber: God is the...

Martin Buber: God is the...

God is the mysterium tremendum, that appears and overthrows, but he is also the mystery of the self-evident, nearer to...

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Robert Burton: Diseases . ....

Robert Burton: Diseases . ....

Diseases . . . crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples,...

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Elizabeth Fry: I hope, if...

Elizabeth Fry: I hope, if...

I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing...

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Jean de LaBruyere: There are only...

Jean de LaBruyere: There are only...

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in...

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John Keble: And help us,...

John Keble: And help us,...

And help us, this and every day,
To live more nearly as we pray.


Source: The...

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Saint Augustine: There is something...

Saint Augustine: There is something...

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

Source: The City...

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Fulton J Sheen: How could science...

Fulton J Sheen: How could science...

How could science be any enemy of religion when God commanded man to be a scientist the day He told him to rule the...

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Fulton J Sheen: The mind is...

Fulton J Sheen: The mind is...

The mind is like a clock that is constantly running down and must be wound up daily with good...

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Buddha: Decay is inherent...

Buddha: Decay is inherent...

Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence.

Source: In...

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Shunryu Suzuki: To give your...

Shunryu Suzuki: To give your...

To give your sheep or cow a large, spacious meadow is the way to control him.

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Lyman Abbott: A child is...

Lyman Abbott: A child is...

A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice -- but as yet...

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Karl Barth: Jews have God's...

Karl Barth: Jews have God's...

Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them, as guests in...

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Reinhold Niebuhr: The sad duty...

Reinhold Niebuhr: The sad duty...

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Source: Quoted...

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Harvey Cox: What we are...

Harvey Cox: What we are...

What we are seeking so frantically elsewhere may turn out to be the horse we have been riding all...

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Aristotle: The things we...

Aristotle: The things we...

The things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

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Aristotle: We become just...

Aristotle: We become just...

We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave...

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Francis Bacon: It is a...

Francis Bacon: It is a...

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

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