A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.
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As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
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Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week. Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
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Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.
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Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
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Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
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Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
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Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.
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Happiness is the natural flower of duty.
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I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.
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It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
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Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.
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Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you will keep it to the end.
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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
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No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.
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The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung.
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The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
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