Humility is the embroidery of chiefs.
BILL VAUGHANRemembrance of death saves one from this world’s deceit.
More Bill Vaughan Quotes
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Muscles come and go; flab lasts.
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The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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Letters should be easy and natural.
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No one can bring to God what you can.
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Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
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The more we succeed, the more we’re seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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Pipe-smokers spend so much time cleaning, filling and fooling with their pipes, they don’t have time to get into mischief.
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Every time you look at a house in Los Angeles, the real-estate agent will tell you that someone famous once lived there. It always seemed irrelevant to me: Does a property gain value just because Alfred Hitchcock used to eat breakfast there?
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Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.
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Salvation includes an ongoing transformation in your life.
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God wants us along for the victory, but it is His fight.
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
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Everything pales in comparison to deer.
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody else.
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A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
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What’s wonderful is to read the different translations – some done in 1600 and some in 1900 – of the same passage. It’s fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries.
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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Most people – and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all – are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
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Dark windows are often a very clear proof.
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Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like ‘excuse me’, and other such simple courtesies.
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It would be nice if the poor were to get even half of the money that is spent in studying them.
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The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.
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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.
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Perhaps God chose me to be an atheist?
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