No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
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No matter where your interest lies, you will not be able to accomplish anything unless you bring your deepest devotion to it.
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
To exercise faith is to trust that the Lord knows what he is doing with you and that He can accomplish it for your eternal good even though you cannot understand how He can possibly do it...Your Father in Heaven and His Beloved Son love you perfectly.
To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.
The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
Its not about the goal. Its about growing to become the person that can accomplish that goal.
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.
The starting point of all achievement is desire.
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Whatever we accomplish is due to the combined effort.
Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
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