"The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down, half-finished loves."
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"Let us not bankrupt our today's by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow."
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"Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us a full life, nor can knowledge alone. No life is full unless it is linked to some- thing that goes on after we are dead.... If we have nothing more to live for than just to get ahead in a competitive system, then democracy will go down before other philosophies."
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"A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men."
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"Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted."
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"In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together."
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"What makes greatness is starting something that lives after you."
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"Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We read the Bible when we feel like it. Leaving our religious exercises to the promptings of impulse, we become creatures of impulse rather than soldiers of Christ. An army made up of creatures of impulse would be only a mob. So is a church."
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"True liberty consists not merely in being free from something, but also in being free for something."
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"Balance the bad news of life with the good news of Christ."
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"The forgiveness of the world can only be accomplished by the judgment of the world."
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"As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth."
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"In being realistic we do not always have to be pessimistic. Christ never blinked his eyes at bad things. But he never became so obsessed with human evil that he lost faith in man."
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"The hope of free people in a frightened world is the values which people put ahead of inventions when their backs are to the wall. These values are beauty, truth, goodness and having a faith, all of which are bombproof."
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"When we count on chance in lieu of law and labor, we weaken our healthy attitudes toward work, our fellow men and our God."
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"The roots of responsibility run out to the ends of the earth and we can no more isolate our consciences from world issues than we can fence off our oyster beds from the tides of the ocean."
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"Advertising enriches life by quickening the imagination, arousing interest and enlarging the taste."
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"We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually makes himself miserable. Mental talents, if buried and not used, tend to deteriorate. Whoever would save his memory by not using it will lose it."
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"Hoist the sails of your own spirit to catch the winds of God."
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"Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind."
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