You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.
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You can't be held captive by the fear of failure or the fear of what people may say.
No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another.
I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear.
Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.
One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say
When one has made his demands upon the Universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.
You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength
Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
In the future, how we educate our children may prove to be more important than how much we educate them.
The road to success may be, and generally is, obstructed by many influences which must be removed before the goal can be reached.
There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.
You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.
Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Word-work is sublime... because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference-the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.
This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.
A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty — indeed, of its very existence — reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom.
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