Watchman Nee Quotes
To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.Watchman Nee
Quotes to Explore
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
Tamra Davis -
I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
Tamara Mellon -
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
H. G. Wells -
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
Karen Elson -
If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality.
Oswald Chambers -
From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
Zac Efron
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
Livy -
Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew. There wasn't much left for anyone to die for, except the right to remain peculiar.
Colum McCann -
When you start hanging out with Jennifer Lopez and Bill Clinton, you can't expect to remain an everyday person.
Alfonso Soriano -
The media simply does not understand Econ 101.
Mark Skousen -
I aspire to write what are called 'familiar essays.' They begin in the personal and end in the universal. It's not for me to say if I have been successful at it. But that is the hope.
David Rakoff -
Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
Charles Duhigg
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca -
I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.
Kim Cattrall -
I don't drink any soda. None at all. Just water with lemon. If I need something different: iced tea. I don't have anything like protein shakes.
Jillian Rose Reed -
If thou wouldst help others deal with them as though they were what they should be
John Lancaster Spalding -
When I consider how my light is spent,Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with me useless.
John Milton -
He says his aim is poetry. One does not aim at poetry with pistols. At poets, perhaps.
Tom Stoppard
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I believe that when you work on yourself, you are attracted by different, more positive beings.
Isabelle Adjani -
Revival is a renewed conviction of sin and repentance, followed by an intense desire to live in obedience to God. It is giving up one's will to God in deep humility.
Charles Grandison Finney -
Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.
Antonio Machado -
To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.
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