It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.
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Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.Phillips Brooks
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond but most people only look at it and so they see only the dead letter.
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You may look through the streets of heaven, asking each how they came to b there, and you will look in vain everywhere for a person who is morally and spiritually strong, whose strength did not come to him in struggle. There is no exception anywhere. Every true strength is gained in struggle.
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As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.
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Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
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The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death that is not the great thing but that we are to be new here and now by the power of the resurrection not so much that we are to live forever as that we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
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