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till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through
us." | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for
tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the
doing of your work shall not be a miracle, But you yourself shall be the
miracle. Every day you shall wonder at yourself: At the richness of life
which has come in you by the grace of God." | |
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Found in the topic Praise.
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| "Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely
contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is
thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever
beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger,
which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is still, in
spite of all, the child of God." | |
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Found in the topic Satisfied.
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| "Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there." | |
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Found in the topic Charity.
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| "A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence
than another has by his words." | |
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Found in the topic Children.
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| "There are no times in life when opportunity, the chance to be and
do, gathers so richly about the soul as when it has to suffer. Then
everything depends on whether the man turns to the lower or the higher
helps. If he resorts to mere expedients and tricks the opportunity is
lost. He comes out harder, poorer, smaller for his pain. But, if he turns
to God, the hour of suffering is the turning hour of his life." | |
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Found in the topic Suffer.
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| "O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie; Above thy
deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets
shineth The everlasting Light. The hopes and fears of all the years Are
met in thee tonight. For Christ is born of Mary, And, gathered all above
While mortals sleep,the angels keep Their watch of wond?ring love. O
morning stars, together Proclaim the holy birth, And praises sing to God
the King, And peace to men on earth. How silently, how silently The
wondrous gift is giv?n! So God imparts to human hearts The blessings of
his heav?n. No ear may hear his coming; But in this world of sin, Where
meek souls will receive him, still The dear Christ enters in." | |
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Found in the topic Christmas.
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| "The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be
the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is
thinking and the deeds he is doing...." | |
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Found in the topic Soul.
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| "We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to
become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot
accomplish it unaided." | |
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Found in the topic Spirit.
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| "Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before
the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with
statues." | |
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Found in the topic Life.
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| "To say, "well done" to any bit of good work is to take hold of the
powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our
knowledge." | |
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Found in the topic Appreciation.
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| "The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who
tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves,
the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through
many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is." | |
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Found in the topic Advice.
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| "Some day, in years to come, you will be wrestling with the great
temptation, or trembling under the great sorrow of your life. But the real
struggle is here, now, in these quiet weeks. Now it is being decided
whether, in the day of your supreme sorrow or temptation, you shall
miserably fail or gloriously conquer. Character cannot be made except by a
steady, long-continued process." | |
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Found in the topic Character.
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