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Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.

William Arthur Ward

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William Arthur Ward
Age: 72 †
Born: 1921
Born: December 17
Died: 1994
Died: March 30
Writer
Louisiana
United States
Brook
Brooks
Ocean
Seen
Knowing
Faith

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For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends... Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
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Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: 'Choose ye this day....'.
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The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature with the highest prerogative--to change nature and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great but to create anew, which is greater.
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We can be bitter about our handicaps or we can be happy about our blessings.
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