When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.
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When God gives a command or a vision of truth, it is never a question of what He will do, but what we will do.
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive.
Espionage, for the most part, involves finding a person who knows something or has something that you can induce them secretly to give to you. That almost always involves a betrayal of trust.
Heaven's Way gives no favors. It always remains with good people.
Give me strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is.
Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.
Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.
Give Honest and Sincere Appreciation.
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature a religious and infinite quality in their esteem.
If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors.
Notable enough, however, are the controversies over the series 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 + 1 - ... whose sum was given by Leibniz as 1/2, although others disagree. ... Understanding of this question is to be sought in the word "sum"; this idea, if thus conceived - namely, the sum of a series is said to be that quantity to which it is brought closer as more terms of the series are taken - has relevance only for convergent series, and we should in general give up the idea of sum for divergent series.
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.
O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee : I give Thee back the life I owe, That in Thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be.
If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.
The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.
If you dont like the way your life is going, redesign it. Redeem the years you lost. Restore your vision, revive your passion for living, and reclaim what was dormant inside of you. I cannot give you the dream but I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside.
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit. Give everything you got today for tomorrow may never come.
God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me.
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