That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics.
FLORENCE NIGHTINGALELive life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
More Florence Nightingale Quotes
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Live life when you have it. Life is a splendid gift-there is nothing small about it.
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The martyr sacrifices themselves entirely in vain. Or rather not in vain; for they make the selfish more selfish, the lazy more lazy, the narrow narrower.
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Let us never consider ourselves finished nurses, we must be learning all of our lives.
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Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer
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I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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Averages seduce us away from minute observation.
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I cannot remember the time when I have not longed for death. For years and years I used to watch for death as no sick man ever watched for the morning.
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Moral activity? There is scarcely such a thing possible! Everything is sketchy. The world does nothing but sketch.
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The next Christ will perhaps be a female Christ.
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It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm. It is quite necessary nevertheless to lay down such a principle.
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For the sick it is important to have the best.
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For what is Mysticism? It is not the attempt to draw near to God, not by rites or ceremonies, but by inward disposition? Is it not merely a hard word for ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is within’? Heaven is neither a place nor a time.
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A human being does not cease to exist at death. It is change, not destruction, which takes place.
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
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