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We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

Jean Pierre de Caussade

You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body

“The very best and highest attainment in this life is to remain still and let God act and speak in you.” Meister Eckhart

“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.” Blaise Pascal

“Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.” Ovid

“You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.”

Henry David Thoreau

I have so many things to do today, I dare not ignore my time with God.

Martin Luther

Sometimes we’re pushing on the door we want God to open, while his sign says “Pull.”

Martha Bolton

“Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing, that we see too late the one that is open.”

Alexander Graham Bell

As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.

Paul Shane Spear

If there are a thousand steps between us and God, He will leave the final one for us.

“The voices of the world are loud and sparse, but the voice of God is a constant whisper.” Benjamin J. Elger

“The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.” Thomas a Kempis

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A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.

“The greatest truths are the simplest.”

“God hath given to man a short time here upon earth, and yet upon this short time eternity depends.” Jeremy Taylor

The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.

L. Thomas Holdcroft

What soap is to the body, tears are for the soul.

Jewish Proverb

“Reports are sketchy, but we have heard that in the first heart transplant operation in Belgium, both patient and donor are doing fine.”

Radio news announcer

“Man Breaks Leg In Fall Off Bride.”

St. Louis Dispatch Headline (should have read “bridge.”)

“Predictions are difficult, especially about the future.”

Yogi Berra, Baseball player

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.”

Kahlil Gibran

“I didn’t know Onward Christian Soldiers was a Christian song.”

Aggie Pate, at a non-denominational mayor’s breakfast, Fort Worth, Texas

“That’s so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my clothes.”

Stu Grimson, Chicago Blackhawks left winger, explaining why he keeps a color photo of himself above his locker

“I’ve never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body.”

Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.

A friend is someone who’s there when he needs you

Anon

“Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.”

Dennis Rodman, NBA Basketball player, on Chicago Bull’s team chemistry being overrated.

“Bruce Sutter has been around for awhile and he’s pretty old. He’s thirty-five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is.”

Ron Fairley, Giants broadcaster

“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet”

Al Gore

I cannot tell you how grateful I am — I am filled with humidity.

Gib Lewis, speaker of the Texas House

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

They misunderestimated me…

George W Bush

“Do Not Place Hand In Fan While Fan Is Running.”

Warning label on central air conditioning unit

“It is thought that Raj Mohammed Poselay was beaten to death, possibly during a family fun day in the park.”

Newspaper, Wolverton Express & Star (UK)

It will be years – not in my time – before a woman will become Prime Minister…

Margaret Thatcher

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

“And as Mansell comes into the pits, he’s quite literally sweating his eyeballs out.”

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