Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
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And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.
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This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.
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I love playing the new songs live. I hate playing a new song and then having to play an old song again, it feels really boring.
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I'll tell you, there's no goodies and baddies in the world, there's just people with intentions that sometimes clash.
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The ultimate purpose of every teaching, every activity in the Church is that parents and their children are happy at home, sealed in an eternal marriage, and linked to their generations.
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It reassures parents that we are aware of the employment difficulty and that we are doing as much as we can to provide information to their sons and daughters, and to help them deal with the post-graduate reality.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Subsidiarity is the principle that government works best - most responsibly and responsively - when it is closest to the people it serves and the needs it addresses. Fiscal accountability is the principle that institutions collecting and disbursing taxes work most responsibly when they are transparent to those providing the money.
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If there's a truth and nobody knows it, is it still true? Or is it like a light burning in a locked, shuttered house that nobody will ever get to see?
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It was a good practice session, but then we started tailing-off, just as most players do during exhibition games and we started shooting more instead of executing.
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If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.
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The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.
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People are funny in the way that they choose to express themselves.
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The more you suffer the deeper grows your character, and with the deepening of your character you read the more penetratingly into the secrets of life. All great artists, all great religious leaders, and all great social reformers have come out of the intensest struggles which they fought bravely, quite frequently in tears and with bleeding hearts
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Once you start rewriting, you're not able to stop. With each draft the fundamental banality and worthlessness of the material becomes more evident even as its vitality and spontaneity are drained from it.
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It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment.
