"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
- Socrates
Quotes
Our collection of inspiring quotes.
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"Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches."
- Unknown
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"As you slide down the Banister of Life, may the Splinters never point the wrong way."
- Irish Blessing
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"The history of every temptation, and of every sin, is the same; the outward object of attraction, the inward commotion of mind, the increase and triumph of passionate desires, ending in the degradation, slavery, and ruin of the soul."
- Unknown
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"If you will sacrifice for the sake of money, but will not sacrifice for the sake of Jesus, don't deceive yourself: money is your god."
- David Guzik
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"If you don't feel pain, you won't feel anything else."
- Gillian Rose, in her unfinished Paradiso
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"Don’t eat till your stomach cries out. Don’t sleep till you can’t stay awake. Don’t open your mouth till it’s the truth opens it."
Medieval spiritual formation
- Frederick Buechner