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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You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex.
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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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All the gods are dead except the god of war.
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Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his 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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In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time.
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Being a guy with tattoos, 38-years-old and thought of as a punk rocker, to end up on Nickelodeon is kind of weird.
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I don't have to put on a front. If I had to, it would be difficult and tiring.
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One of the industries we follow very closely is the trucking industry. They would love if today there was an option for them to run their fleets on natural gas, because of the price disparity between oil and refined diesel - which they almost exclusively run on now - and natural gas.
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To be optimistic about something that is absolutely unknown to you is unfounded.
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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.
