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" A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package. "
Wrapped
Package
Person
" Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. "
Life
Love
Bitterness
" Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it. "
Change
Profit
Nor
" Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. "
Democracy
Based
Possibilities
" Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to. "
Simply
Business
Something
" Every human life involves an unfathomable mystery, for man is the riddle of the universe, and the riddle of man in his endowment with personal capacities. "
Personal
Man
Mystery
" God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality. "
Within
God
Possibilities
" God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things. "
Get
Cosmic
Press
" Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. "
Rat
People
Own
" He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward. "
Rest
Find
Forward
" He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles. "
Best
Courage
Love
" I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses. "
War
Hate
Consequences
" I hate war... for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. "
After
Place
Starvation
" I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it. "
My Life
Life
Small
" Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. "
Liberty
Always
Thing
" Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled. "
Much
Life
You Can Do It
" Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us but in what we make out of what they do to us. "
Out
Make
Life
" No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined. "
Life
Great
Power
" Our power is not so much in us as through us. "
Through
Much
Our
" Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis. "
Preaching
Counseling
Personal
" Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings. "
Religion
Wings
Burden
" The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him. "
Discipline
Results
Men
" The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. "
Uses
Man
Best
" To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places. "
Places
People
Golden
" We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great. "
Great
Something
Always
" Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself. "
Whatever
You
Others
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