Elizabeth Ann Seton Quotes
We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.
Quotes to Explore
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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I believe in God. God created the world.
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God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
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In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
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The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
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I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
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The old and honorable idea of 'vocation' is simply that we each are called, by God, or by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted.
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God does say He will graciously entertain our prayers. He says that if we exercise faith, and if our request is in accordance with His will, He will hear us.
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I cannot keep silent, nor would it be proper, so many favours and graces has the Lord deigned to bestow on me in the land of my captivity. For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven.
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Love is the song of the soul, singing to God.
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The larger picture is really to swing people's awareness of what really is moral. ... There are great clergy-people who absolutely do not agree with this. It's not whether God is on our side or whether we're doing God's will, it's being so narcissistic as to think that God is telling you what to do.
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Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.
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God has never disappointed me.
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Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc.
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You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
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Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.
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To actually be allowed to be beautiful is a total first for me.
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I did not go to military school. I had an option either a military school or a private school. I don't know how to get that out of the information that's out there.
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There is nothing impossible to him who will try.
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I love my parents very much, but people either continue or break the patterns of what their life should be and I just want to completely break whatever patterns would lead me to the same life choices that they made.
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We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.
