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But oars alone can ne'er prevail To reach the distant coast; The breath of Heaven must swell the sail, Or all the toil is lost.
Topic: Boating
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Author: Alan Saporta
Where liberty dwells, there is my country.
Topic: Liberty
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross.
Topic: Love
That what will come, and must come, shall come well.
Topic: Future
Author: Edwin Arnold
The desire of love is to give. The desire of lust is to get.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Come, ye saints, look here and wonder, See the place where Jesus lay; He has burst His bands asunder; He has borne our sins away; Joyful tidings, Yes, the Lord has risen to-day.
Topic: Easter
Author: Thomas Kelly
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
Topic: Freedom
Author: Emerson
American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
Topic: Importance
Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist The why of natural law is the living Voice of God immanent in His creation. And this word of God which brought all worlds into being cannot be understood to mean the Bible, for it is not a written or printed word at all, but the expression of the will of God spoken into the structure of all things. This word of God is the breath of God filling the world with living potentiality. The Voice of God is the most powerful force in nature, indeed the only force in nature, for all energy is here only because the power-filled Word is being spoken. [Continued].
Author: A W Tozer
Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.
Topic: Columbus
Author: Unknwon
Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.
Author: John Owen
Beginning a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: If we are prepared to admit, even as a possibility, that Jesus was divine, or even that without being divine he was unique, then we must, as a matter of logic, discard any attempt to discredit the Gospel accounts on the ground that they record miracles.
Author: E L Mascall
There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin, The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill; For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing. To wander along by the wind-beaten hill. But the day star attracted his eyes' sad devotion, For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean, Where once in the fire of his youthful emotion He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh.
Sometimes providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backward.
Topic: Cliches
Author: John Flavel
In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.
Topic: Faith
The rule of accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem it always helps if you know the answer.
Topic: Accuracy
Author: John Peer
We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.
Topic: Cliches