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We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The best of community does give one a deep sense of belonging and well-being and in that sense community takes away loneliness.
Henri Nouwen
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We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever.
Henry B. Eyring
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All our work in the field, in the garden, in the city, in the home, in struggle, in government-to what does it all amount before God except child's play, by means of which God is pleased to give his gifts in the field, at home, and everywhere? These are the masks of our Lord God, behind which he wants to be hidden and to do all things.
Martin Luther
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It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
Thomas Aquinas
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Christ could be born a thousand times in Bethlehem - but all in vain until He is born in me.
Angelus Silesius
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What we now need to see is that human life doesn't need to be rescued from a fall that didn't happen. Human life needs to be empowered. We have to begin to see the work of God as expanding the humanity of people so that they do not have to relate to one another out of the survivor mentality of fallen people.
John Shelby Spong
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A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen.
Angelus Silesius
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By the will art thou lost, by the will art thou found, by the will art thou free, captive, and bound.
Angelus Silesius
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Three days: Today, Tomorrow and Yesterday, I know, Yet if the past were cancelled within the here and now, And then the future hidden, I could regain that Day, Which I, before I was, had lived in God's own way.
Angelus Silesius
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God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.
Angelus Silesius
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God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can't come to visit you unless you aren't there.
Angelus Silesius
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Springtime is at hand. When will you ever bloom, if not here and now?
Angelus Silesius
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Paradise is at your own center unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
Angelus Silesius
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The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.
Angelus Silesius
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The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.
Angelus Silesius
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I am like God and God like me. I am as large as God. He is as small as I. He cannot above me nor I beneath him be.
Angelus Silesius
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The name of Jesus is as ointment poured forth It nourishes, and illumines, and stills the anguish of the soul.
Angelus Silesius
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If Christ were born in Bethlehem a thousand times and not in thee thyself then art thou lost eternally.
Angelus Silesius
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What is outside yourself does not convey much worth Clothes do not make the man, the saddle not the horse.
Angelus Silesius
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We keep so busy talking we are so keen to act that we forget that in the heart lies all we need untapped, intact.
Angelus Silesius
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A monk asks:Is there anything more miraculous than the wonders of nature?The master answers:Yes, your awareness of the wonders of nature.
Angelus Silesius
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Time is of your own making Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.
Angelus Silesius
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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
Plutarch
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