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I don’t pray so that I can change God. I pray so that God can change me.

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Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.
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Change Growth Hustle Improvement Synthesis
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
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Affection Feeling Goodness Love Obtain Steady
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
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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I can’t imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Book Enjoyment Imagination Man Reading
Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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Allow Experience God Lesson Life Teaching
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
Don’t judge a man by where he is, because you don’t know how far he has come.
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Experience Healing Judgement Life Man Struggle
Life is too deep for words, so don’t try to describe it, just live it.
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Deep Describe Explanation Inspirational Life Live
Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.
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Atheist Exist Express God Rage View
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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Alone Bed Funny Habit Peace Sleep
Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
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You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.
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Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.
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Believe Faith God Life People Problem

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