It is as real an energy as the energy of electricity. It is a divine energy; it is the energy of the divine affection rolling in plenteousness toward the shores of human need.
BENJAMIN JOWETTThe way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
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I am not blaming the past. … But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
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Grace is an energy; not a mere sentiment; not a mere thought of the Almighty; not even a word of the Almighty.
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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique.
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We can’t search or attain well being, wealth, studying, justice or kindness usually. Action is all the time particular, concrete, individualized, distinctive.
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My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
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If you don’t find a God by five o’clock this afternoon you must leave the college.
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To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another.
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It is most important in this world to be pushing, but it is fatal to seem so.
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All translation is a compromise – the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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Plato’s dialogues bear at least some similarities to the classical plays.
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The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
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One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
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Precautions are always blamed. When successful they are said to be unnecessary.
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There is a great deal of hard lying in the world; especially among people whose characters are above suspicion.
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