The tax collector must love poor people, he’s creating so many of them.
BILL VAUGHANOne of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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As surely as you are a living man, so surely did that spectral anatomy visit my room again last night, grin in my face, and walk away with my trousers: nor was I able to spring from my bed, or break the chain which seemed to bind me to my pillow.
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There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere.
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You have to climb to reach a deep thought.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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What they’ll do is eat their body weight in marshmallow fluff, walk away, they’ll vomit, and they’ll come back and eat their body weight again. And they’ll vomit. And they’ll do that for as long as there is marshmallow fluff out there. They love marshmallow fluff.
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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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What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
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Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
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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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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.
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I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left.
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Healing is the rediscovery of who we are and who we have always been.
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I’ve still got a lot to learn about Washington. Thursday, I accidentally spent some of my own money.
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