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Many people profess Christianity. Very few live it-almost none. And when you live it people may think you're crazy. It has been truthfully said that the world is equally shocked by one who repudiates Christianity as by one who practices it.

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God.

You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.

A pilgrim is a wanderer with purpose.

People see themselves as the center of the universe and judge everything as it relates to them.

The purpose of problems is to push you toward obedience to God's laws, which are exact and cannot be changed. We have the free will to obey them or disobey them. Obedience will bring harmony, disobedience will bring you more problems.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself and yourself alone one question. . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

You are seeking joy and peace in far-off places. But the spring of joy is in your heart. The haven of peace is in yourself.

The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing and then marry him.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

In selling as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.

Perhaps our eyes are merely a blank film which is taken from us after our deaths to be developed elsewhere and screened as our life story in some infernal cinema or dispatched as microfilm into the sidereal void.

Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide nothing can be done.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

There are people who have money and people who are rich.

Those who wish to sing always find a song.

Eighty percent of success is showing up.