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Feast of Catherine of Siena, Mystic, Teacher, 1380 He has loved us without being loved... We are b... CATHERINE OF SIENA His contributions as a person to this community through the United Way are just immeasurable. We cal...
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We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa... BARBARA MANDRELL
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us -... FREDERICK BUECHNER Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 I saw full surely in this and in all, that e...
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We, according to the Scriptures, plainly believe that Christ hath, by his righteousness, merited for... JOHN OWEN
Prayer is the movement of trust, of gratitude, of adoration, or of sorrow, that places us before God... THOMAS MERTON He was telling us all that he loved us, and we told him it was OK, he could go to all his friends, a...
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We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares... ANN LANDERS Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he...
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The irony is that while God doesn't need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don't re... FRANCIS CHAN
he’d spent his whole life trying to make God love him—and that this didn’t matter in the sligh... THOMAS MALLON
Hence, when we ask anything of God and He begins to hear us, He so often goes counter to our petitio... MARTIN LUTHER
And I remember when I met him, it was so clear that he was the only one for me. We both knew it, rig... LANA DEL REY That was a tough one with Omar. I knew he didn't want to hit leadoff, and fortunately we had other p...
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God made the world for the delight of human beings-- if we could see His goodness everywhere, His co... MOTHER TERESA
The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of wh... A. W. TOZER Feast of the Conversion of Paul The God of Pharisaism was like the God of the Deists, He stood al...
C. H. DODD
She'd always known he didn't love her. But it was easier to bear when he didn't know she loved him. ... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL When we saw him in Spring Training, we knew he had some thunder in his hands. But he's been really g...
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You have to be patient with him. Travis doesn't remember much about it, but he was close to his mom,... JAMIE MCGUIRE When over the years someone has seen you at your worst, and knows you with all your strengths and fl...
TIMOTHY J. KELLER
We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON
He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. "We do not pray to him at all," said the reve... VOLTAIRE
...and yes even loved him even though logic and reason told me I had no business feeling that way ab... MEGAN MCCAFFERTY
The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is al... SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL
God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concer... BILLY GRAHAM We had so much fun with that pony. He liked children. He just was good to us. We always knew he love...
KAREN SHINKLE
My father had never lost his temper with us, never beaten us, but we had for him that feeling often ... JOYCE CARY
If we want to be loved, we must disclose ourselves. If we want to love someone, he must permit us to... SIDNEY JOURARD Because we know he was simply a man, with weakness and frailties.
Who yearned for the same thi...
KRISTEN CALLIHAN Feast of Mark the Evangelist The reason why we can hope to find God is that He is here, engaged al...
RUFUS JONES
His father was a great guy and was always a good fan. He loved Duke football, and he loved his son, ... BRIAN GREENE God freely created us so that we might know, love, and serve him in this life and be happy with him ...
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In the arena of adversity, the Scriptures teach us three essential truths about God—truths we must... JERRY BRIDGES
I know with all my heart and soul that God lives. I believe He will enlighten our lives with His lov... JAMES E. FAUST Scott was punk rock and basically we were just worried about his health. We got kind of midway throu...
BRANDON THOMAS
...when we love God, we naturally run to Him-frequently and zealously. Jesus didn't command that we ... FRANCIS CHAN Feast of Cyril & Methodius, Missionaries to the Slavs, 869 & 885 Commemoration of Valentine, Martyr ...
K. MORGAN EDWARDS Because of that, he didn't know how to love someone who actually loved him. He had learned a twisted...
JACQUELINE SIMON GUNN
This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever hav... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he ...
SOL LUCKMAN
…in that moment, as he saw and smelled how irresistible its effect was and how with lightning spee... PATRICK SüSKIND
Once a person learns to read the signs of love and thus to believe it, love leads him into the open ... HANS URS VON BALTHASAR
In the days of His earthly ministry, only those could speak to him who came where He was: if He was ... WILLIAM TEMPLE Such is our dependence upon God that we are obliged not only to do everything for His sake, but also...
FRANÇOIS FÉNELON We knew they were going to wheel it over in his direction. We were yelling at him from the sidelines...
DOUG JOHNSON
Feast of Commemoration of Helena, Protector of the Faith, 330 Wherever we turn in the church of ... FREDERICK W. FABER
The work of Christ on the cross did not influence God to love us, did not increase that love by one ... A.W. TOZER
The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,... CRAIG GROESCHEL
I filled the song with everything I wished I could teach him about life. I tried to reassure him wit... ELIZABETH GILBERT We believe because it gives us faith. It gives us the willingness to go through our day, to keep the...
TARUN BETALA What kind of a ballplayer do you want to have the ball in his hands in that kind of situation? We kn...
BRET MEULI
Let me implore the reader to try to believe, if only for a moment, that God, who made these deservin... C.S. LEWIS We could have used him in the middle of that lineup, ... There's a reason he has 100 RBIs. One swing...
JACKIE MOORE
All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by dro... JAMES BALDWIN
You say you cannot love God; but it strikes me that if you rightly consider who and what He is, you ... ANNE BRONTë I have been learning a great deal about the need to let go of our fears and truly trust the Lord. Wh...
LAURA LANE This is our Lord's will, ... that our prayer and our trust be, alike, large. For if we do not trust ...
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DANIEL GILMAN
Alexander shifted in my arms. God, he was so small, and from the giddy looks on my father's and Ashl... KATIE MCGARRY We need to get some looks at him and make a decision. This will give us a better reading. We want to...
MIKE ARBUCKLE
For we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us, so tha... JOHN WINTHROP
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don't know the meaning of all things, but we know... JOHN BYTHEWAY
This malady which Swann’s love had become had so proliferated, was so closely interwoven with all ... MARCEL PROUST I've seen God in His creation and I've always loved Him. People might think I'm sick, but the Lord h...
BETTY CUTHBERT He had his helmet on, but I don't know if it was strapped right. We all loved him, and we're going t...
JOSE TORRES
The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evi... GEORGE MACDONALD He had some things to say because we weren't playing up to our potential. This meeting, he was reall...
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SKIP PROSSER
The Lord is not serious. In fact, it is a little hard to know just what else He is except loving. An... RAY BRADBURY
And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom... THE BIBLE
That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have... JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 19...
ROBERT L. SHORT
When we attribute foreknowledge to God, we mean that all things always were, and perpetually remain,... JOHN CALVIN All game we just thought about Jermaine and how he wouldn't want it to end like this. We want to tak...
DEAUNDRE MUHAMMAD Here is the thing about God. He is so big and so perfect that we can't really understand Him. We can...
LAUREN F. WINNER
If we can accept those who disagree with us, who are hurt and full of misunderstandings, we must tre... GREG GORDON My mother helped him with the recipes, and we all kind of worked together in his business. Tim had m...
JOE MORGAN We love him because he took such a deep and genuine interest in us.
FORREST BELL
Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us - even with all our flaws! His love is... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN Jerry Falwell said that the reason that September 11th happened, the reason that God allowed it to h...
LEWIS BLACK Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to al...
ELLA R. BLOOR He exists and we have four people who identified him and I know who he is, where he is, what his pho...
WILLIAM PEPPER
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we... R.C. SPROUL
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces a... SAINT TERESA OF AVILA It was one of the worst ankle injuries I've seen. It was swollen half way up his calf, like a limp f...
ERIK WOLPERT
He was looking amazing. He was feeling amazing and I think it was just wonderful to have him back on... KARAN JOHAR When I saw him at his best When everything was at its worst He has proven me and the rest of the wor...
HEARTTOHEART THOUGHTS Another version of the “Prosperity Gospel” or “Name It and Claim It” teaching has to do with...
ERIC METAXAS And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abid...
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All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD
But we must believe that Judas, who repented even to agony, who repented so that his high-prized lif... GEORGE MACDONALD We all believe that he's with God. He was a spiritual person. He saw the beauty of life, and I have ...
JEFF GWALTNEY
God has made the Universe and all that is in it, can He ever fail to give us anything that we ask of... JOCELYN SORIANO
Things that I grew up with stay with me. You start a certain way, and then you spend your whole life... 
Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married wit... 
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As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most Am... 
I'll always use the negativity as more motivation to work even harder and become even stronger. 
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One of the things that I share with Bryan Becket is this hole in my childhood memory. There's ab... 
People have to realize that just because you're a Christian, it doesn't mean that you're... 
When I went to Warner Bros., there was a woman named Bonnie Lee who was an executive who helped me t... 
I don't think Brian Cox does 'The Wonders of the Solar System' because he believes the w... 
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I remember in '37 when trolley cars were so big in New York. It was five cents for a ride... The... 
For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, ... 
I believe our health care system is in drastic need of innovative, patient-centered reforms that enc... 
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I kind of struggled as a 10-year-old to make out what it meant that Martin Luther King and Bobby Ken... 
Necessity is the author of change 
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I always wondered how it would be to put on a Braves uniform and play in Atlanta. 
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We’re not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We’re not even the Next-New-Thi... 
The path to wisdom is paved with humility. 
Her eyes were of different colors, the left as brown as autumn, the right as gray as Atlantic wind. ... 
Your friends will believe in your potential, your enemies will make you live up to it. 
Sometimes we can't see the relevance of Jesus Christ until we become dissatisfied with the world and... 
Who you are tomorrow begins with what you do today. 
I feel the need to endanger myself every so often. 
We all know interspecies romance is weird. 
Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. 
I've been promoted to middle management. I never thought I'd sink so low. 
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality. 
Good habits are as easy to form as bad ones. 
Necessity is the author of change. 
Telling lies does not work in advertising. 
Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to m... 
I believe that treating other people well is a lost art. 
Men are liars. We'll lie about lying if we have to. I'm an algebra liar. I figure two good l... 
The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is ... 
A picture of me as this super affable sales guy gets painted, but in actuality, I'm pretty drive... 
The community of developers whose work you see on the Web, who probably don't know what ADO or U... 
I'm not perfect. And who knows how many times I've fallen short. We all fall short. That'... 
The American economy has always been the innovator in the world, and we're starting to see some ... 
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Novelty is adaptive when things are changing and you need to adapt yourself. Tradition is essential ... 
While I am talking about private sector job creation, the cap-and-trade energy tax, Speaker Pelosi&#... 
If we don't figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good s... 
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The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It fo... 
Until the company believes in itself, AOL didn't have its own space and identity in the marketpl... 
For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members o... 
America lost its face with the debacle of the Vietnam War. 
Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for someb... 