"No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered."
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"He is a poor son whose sonship does not make him desire to serve all men's mothers."
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"While each of us ... has depressed hours, none of us needs to be a depressed person."
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"Peace is an awareness of reserves from beyond ourselves, so that our power is not so much in us as through us. Peace is the gift, not of volitional struggle, but of spiritual hospitality."
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"It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free."
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"He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward."
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"Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled."
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"Real Christians do not carry their religion, their religion carries them. It is not weight, it is wings."
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"We cannot all be great, but we can always attach ourselves to something that is great."
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"No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it."
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"He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles."
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"He who picks up one end of a stick picks up the other. He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end."
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"No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it, by vigorously willing to have it ... Peace is a consciousness of springs too deep for earthly droughts to dry up. Peace is the gift not of volitional struggle but of spiritual hospitality."
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"Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it."
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"Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us"
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"God has put within our lives meanings and possibilities that quite outrun the limits of mortality."
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"No one can be wrong with man and right with God."
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"Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful."
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"Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis."
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"Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom."
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