Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is “timing” it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.
FULTON J. SHEENNothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose. Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it.
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I feel it is time that I also pay tribute to my four writers, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
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If you do not live out your faith enthusiastically, maybe you don’t have any faith.
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There are two ways of waking up in the morning. One is to say, ‘Good morning, God,’ and the other is to say, ‘Good God, morning’!
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Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
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If you do not live what you believe, you will end up believing what you live.
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Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.
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Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.
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Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds.
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The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.
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All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.
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God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us.
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If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.
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Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
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Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
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