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" One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call. "

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" When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever. "

" God gave us free will, and we may choose to exercise it in ways that end up hurting other people. "

Francis Collins

" Knowledge of God's Word is a bulwark against deception, temptation, accusation, even persecution. "

Edwin Louis Cole

" I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse. "

" We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us. "

Saint Teresa of Avila

" Preaching is effective as long as the preacher expects something to happen-not because of the sermon, not even because of the preacher, but because of God. "

" After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world. "

" To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully. "

" It's just a whole different thing, and it's just that my life has been a blessing, and I thank god every day for the gifts that he has given me and for my daughter and to be able to watch her grow and be a part of her joys and her excitement and what she wants to do in life. "

" Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it. "

Laura Ingalls Wilder

" A fast is not a hunger strike. Fasting submits to God's commands. A hunger strike makes God submit to our demands. "

Edwin Louis Cole

" I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time. "

Friedrich Nietzsche

" Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love. "

" God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. "

Martin Farquhar Tupper

" I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me. "

" The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective. "

" As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. "

Swami Vivekananda

" God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars. "

" I said to the almond tree, 'Friend, speak to me of God,' and the almond tree blossomed. "

Nikos Kazantzakis

" Only God can look at somebody's heart. "

" God, life changes faster than you think. "

" For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women. "

" God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. "

William Shakespeare

" I feel I am lucky. I am grateful for this life that God has given me. I am happy, as I am getting to do work that I want to do and enjoy doing it. "

" God has always given me the strength to say what is right. "

" My nephews all look at me differently now. Before, they couldn't relate to me, and now I'm like a god. "

" I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it. "

" Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both. "

" When I see the American flag, I go, 'Oh my God, you're insulting me.' "

Janeane Garofalo

" Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael. "