theologian Quotes

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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• change

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.

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• life

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

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• alone

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.

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• Inspirational

Very few of us know anything about loyalty to Christ -- For My Sake. It is that which makes the iron saint.

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• Faith

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.

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• Endurance

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

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• Self

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

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• Forgiveness

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

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• courage

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

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• Choice

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

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• Example

High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.

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• AIDS

Only those who look with the eyes of children can lose themselves in the object of their wonder.

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• Children

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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• pet

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

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• Opinion

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

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• Animals

The test of the morality of a society is what it does for its children.

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• Children

Intuition is the clear concept of the whole at once.

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• Intuition

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

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• Knowledge

There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.

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• friendship

When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.

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• becomes

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

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• Love

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

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• christian

Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.

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• destruction

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

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• bad

The sources of human problems have to do with egotism, 'I.'

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• Self

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

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• Responsibility

Beware of the person of one book.

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• Reading

People never improve unless they look to some standard or example higher or better than themselves.

• 9
• Progress

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

• 9
• Faith

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.

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• Salvation

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

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• Sacrifice

Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.

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• Kindness

Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.

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• Ignorance

If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

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• Agreement

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

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• Adversity

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

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• success

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

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• Sacrifice

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

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• Reason

Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes.

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• Obedience

Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace.

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• Kindness

Never say you know a man until you have divided an inheritance with him.

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• Inheritance

A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.

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• costs

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.

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• Present

To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

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• Identity

I hope for the day when everyone can speak again of God without embarrassment.

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• God

By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.

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• Equality

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

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• Envy

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

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• Efficiency

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is better.

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• Anger