Words

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You don't choose a life you live a life.

The Way

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The failure of love might seem to be caused by hate or boredom or unfaithfulness with a lover; but those were results. First came the creeping separateness: the failure behind the failure. . . we saw self as the ultimate danger to love which it is; we didn't see it as the ultimate evil of hell. which it also is.

Shelton Vanauken, A Severe Mercy 

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What happened, we decided, was that apart, we would slightly idealize each other and to that extent lose the real person

Shelton Vanauken, A Severe Mercy 

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I have a feeling that while these words attempt to define God, really God is defining those words. After all, isn’t He the purest source and form of justice, holiness, mercy, wisdom? Isn’t He the beginning?

Micah Murry 

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The Christian way of living does not consist in finding saintly, righteous, and holy people, but in making them

Martin Luther

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They will learn, not for the school, but for life, so that the youths shall go forth energetic, ready for everything, apt, industrious, and worthy of being entrusted with any of the duties of life.

John Amos Comenius 

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing

Oscar Wilde

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Anyone can become angry - that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not easy

Aristotle 

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Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character

Einstein

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What nobler employment,or more valuable to the state,than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Cicero

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The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal

C.S. Lewis

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Both Stoics and Christians were concerned about living in joy. For the stoics it was their pursuit, for Christians a byproduct of their faith.

Matthew A. Elliott

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If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn

Ignacio Estrada

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Humility is not thinking less of yourself but thinking of yourself less

C.S. Lewis 

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If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Spinoza