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Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
No man need stay the way he is.
Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.
What a testing of character adversity is.
Always take a job that is too big for you.
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it.
No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.
Our power is not so much in us as through us.
No one can be wrong with man and right with God.
It is magnificent to grow old, if one keeps young.
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself
Whatever you laugh at in others, laughs at yourself.
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.
[L]ife ceases to be a fraction and becomes an integer.
Happiness is not mostly pleasure, it is mostly victory.
No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.
War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
Atheism is a theoretical formulation of the discouraged life.
The tragedy of war is that it uses man's best to do man's worst.
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him.
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.
Of all mad faiths maddest is the faith that we can get rid of faith.
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
One never finds life worth living. One always has to make it work living.
All intelligent faith in God has behind it a background of humble agnosticism.
He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers.
It is by acts (actions) and not by ideas (mere thoughts) that people [really] live.
While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person.
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that it great.
We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great.
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.
Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness .
Picture yourself vividly as winning, and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success.
Religion is something that only secondarily can be taught. It must must primarily be taught.
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality.
It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show people up.
It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.
Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings.
One could almost phrase the motto of our modern civilization thus: Science is my shepherd; I shall not want.
