I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
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I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
A good example is far better than a good precept.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss.
It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
We are not meant to die merely in order to be dead. God could not want that for the creatures to whom He has given the breath of life. We die in order to live.
So few grow, because so few study.
The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.
I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal.
Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.
For every sale you miss because you're too enthusiastic, you will miss a hundred because you're not enthusiastic enough.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
There is no sense and no sanity in objecting to the desecration of the flag while tolerating and justifying and encouraging as a daily business the desecration of the country for which it stands.
If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
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