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I was with book, as a woman is with child

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A sign of a culture that has lost its faith – Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
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Collapse Culture Faith Lost Moral Spiritual
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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FAction Friendship Live Meditation Solitude World
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts.
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Coward Eyes FAction People Shut Truth
If you never take risks, you’ll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.
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Accomplishment Die Greatness Inspirational Live Risk
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
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Courage Fear Reality Simplicity Virtue
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Clever Devil Education Knowledge Man Value
The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks.
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Boss Evil Greatness Gun Leadership World
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.
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Book Goodness Reading Rule Yourself
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear.
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Broken Heart Burden Depression Heart Hurt Pain Physical
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
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Art Friendship Philosophy Survival Unnecessary Value
God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them.
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God Hard Time Judgement Overcome Perseverance Situation
Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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Attend Conscience God Pain Pleasure World
Have fun, even if it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.
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Attitude Enjoyment Fun Happiness Life
I pray because I can’t help myself. I pray because I’m helpless. It doesn’t change God – it changes me.
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Change God Healing Help Myself Pray
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Atheist Man Reading Sound Young
In such a fearful world, we need a fearless church.
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Fear God Life Positive Religious

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