"Speak of love with others. Remind each other of your spiritual purpose"
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"The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose."
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"Every day, take some time to meditate and cultivate inner quiet. Then ask yourself what I call the "soul questions": Who am I? What do I want? What is the purpose and meaning of my life?"
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"Everyone has a dharma or purpose in life."
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"Jerome Daley reminds us of the beauty, presence, and purpose of God in the waiting period, and that God is just as amazing then as He is at any other time. Readers will grow to trust God even more, and will be greatly rewarded as they are encouraged to faint not."
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"The Declaration of Independence is that sacred American text so full of meaning and purpose and yet quite empty if you examine it and pull it apart because the words "All Men" exclude a vast number of citizens."
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"Bacon not only despised the syllogism, but undervalued mathematics, presumably as insufficiently experimental. He was virulently hostile to Aristotle , but he thought very highly of Democritus , Although he did not deny that the course of nature exemplifies a Divine purpose, he objected to any admixture of teleological explanation in the actual investigation of phenomena; everything, he held, should be explained as following necessarily from efficient causes ."
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"If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end which is impersonal and above mankind, such as God or truth or beauty. Those who best promote life do not have life for their purpose. They aim rather at what seems like a gradual incarnation, a bringing into our human existence of something eternal, something that appears to imagination to live in a heaven remote from strife and failure and the devouring jaws of Time."
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"The purpose of education is to teach a defense against eloquence."
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"The atomists , unlike Socrates , Plato , and Aristotle , sought to explain the world without introducing the notion of purpose or final cause."
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"Our noblest purpose in life is to remember our spiritual nature in the face of suggestions that we are a material society."
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"The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running."
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"The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself."
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"To live with courage, purpose, and connection - to be the person whom we long to be - we must again be vulnerable. We must ... show up, and let ourselves be seen."
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"A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker."
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"Emotions serve characters' purposes. That is their motivation."
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"Prison is not a mere physical horror. It is using a pickaxe to no purpose that makes a prison."
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"The principal purpose of stare decisis is to protect reliance interest and further stability in the law."
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"For the purpose of acquiring gain, everything else is pushed aside or thrown overboard, for example, as is philosophy by the professors of philosophy."
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"A word too much always defeats its purpose."
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