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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If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.
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You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.
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I never thought I would become a photographer.
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We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth.
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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.
