Lao Tzu Quotes

To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

Lao Tzu

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• The kingdom of God must be a continuing revolution against the norms of the society that fall below the standards that are set for us in the gospel of Jesus Christ. In the field of public life, it must be a continuing revolution against proposals that contradict the fundamental principles as laid down in the Constitution of the United States, which was written by men whom God raised up for this very purpose. If we remember that, we will be in the forefront of every battle against the things that are tearing down our society.

  

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• The central point of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ is a personal relationship with Him, not public usefulness to others.

  

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• When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

  

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• It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

  

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• To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living

  

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• The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

  

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• I saw satan laughing with delight The day the music died.

  

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• Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will fit in the scheme or do the deed. Men, great and influential in other things but small in prayer, cannot do the work Almighty God has set out for His Church to do in this, His world.

  

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• If you can keep on trying after three failures in a given undertaking you may consider yourself a 'suspect' as a potential leader in your chosen occupation. If you can keep on trying after a dozen failures the seed of a genius is germinating within your soul.

  

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• When we consider a project, we really study it-not just the surface idea, but everything about it. And when we go into that new project, we believe in it all the way. We have confidence in our ability to do it right. And we work hard to do the best possible job.

  

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• Among the most remarkable features characterizing Zen we find these: spirituality, directness of expression, disregard of form or conventionalism, and frequently an almost wanton delight in going astray from respectability.

  

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• Miracles begin when we consider the possibility that there might be another way.

  

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• God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

  

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• We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

  

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• At this point in time, I don't know if I would change my mind or not, ... I'd certainly consider it. But when I look at the reasons we came up with it in the first place, I'm not sure I would.

  

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• Every kingdom work, whether publicly performed or privately endeavored, partakes of the kingdom's imperishable character. Every honest intention, every stumbling word of witness, every resistance of temptation, every motion of repentance, every gesture of concern, every routine engagement, every motion of worship, every struggle towards obedience, every mumbled prayer, everything, literally, which flows out of our faith-relationship with the Ever-Living One, will find its place in the ever-living heavenly order which will dawn at his coming.

  

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• In China, because China is gaining wealth, rice consumption is way down. Rice is a poor person's food, and they're eating less of it. To wait in line at a fast food chain is cool. And they haven't historically had weight problems. So they don't have this culture of, "I need to lose weight."

  

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• Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better.

  

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• War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

  

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• Israel is the only truly democratic, secular country in the Middle East, right in the middle of all of them.

  

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• To consider this desirable would be to delight in the slaughter of men; and he who delights in the slaughter of men cannot get his will in the kingdom.

  

  Lao Tzu
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  • Delight
  • Kingdom