Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of Heaven.
BILL VAUGHANI count this thing to be grandly true: That a noble deed is a step toward God.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
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He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity.
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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Because, as we are told-a sad old joke, too- Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to.
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One in whose head is conceit, Think not that he will ever listen to truth.
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Managers at [the nuclear] sector should know that we need diplomacy and not slogans, .. This [is] where we should use all our leverages with patience and wisdom, without provocation and slogans that can give pretexts to the enemies.
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I like computers. It’s the first time that I am endorsing a computer brand. I am very computer savvy, so this is certainly up my ally.
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Someday there is going to be a book about a middle-aged man with a good job, a beautiful wife and two lovely children who still manages to be happy.
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Our enemy sees us clearly. They will not start a war. They’re worried about one thing: If democracy develops here, if we succeed, we will win
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one’s balance.
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The great soul that sits on the throne of the universe is not, never was, and never will be, in a hurry.
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Walk in awe, wonder, and humility. Walk at all times of day. In the early morning when the world is just waking up. Late at night under the stars. Along a busy city street at noontime.
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