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.
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.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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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.
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From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. … there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.
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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.
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'Tis a secret: none knows how it comes, how it goes: But the name of the secret is Love!
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When you start hanging out with Jennifer Lopez and Bill Clinton, you can't expect to remain an everyday person.
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The media simply does not understand Econ 101.
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Fame or perceived success - it all comes from groupthink.
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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.
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Habits are malleable throughout your entire life.
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Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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The fighter (like the writer) must stand alone. If he loses he cannot call an executive conference and throw off on a vice president or the assistant sales manager. He is consequently resented by fractional characters who cannot live outside an organization.
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While other professions are concerned with changing the environment to suit the weakened body, chiropractic is concerned with strengthening the body to suit the environment.
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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.
