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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; ... who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."
               Teddy Roosevelt

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"The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins."
          Soren Kierkkegaard

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"How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God, could smash your small cosmos."
       -G.K. Chesterton

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"Your shadow will always release whatever overshadows you. What you are aware of, you will release. Faith does not grow by striving, it grows through surrender."
                  Bill Johnson

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"To walk in the character of Christ is always the right choice, regardless of outcome or consequence."
                            Corrie Ten Boom

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"Never make a principle out of your experience; let God be as original with other people as He is with you."            -Oswald Chambers

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"They have cradled you in custom, they have primed you with their preaching. They have soaked you in convention, through and through; they have put you in a showcase; you're a credit to their teaching- but don't you hear the wild? - it's calling you. Let us probe the silent places, let us seek what luck betide us; let us journey to a lonely land I know. There's a whisper on the night-wind, there's a star agleam to guide us, and the wild is calling; calling... let us go."
           Robert Service

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"The kingdom of God? Time after time Jesus tries to drum into our heads what He means by it. He heaps parable upon parable like a madman. He tries shouting it. He tries whispering it... What He seems to be saying is that the kingdom of God is the time, or a time beyond time, when it will no longer be humans in their lunacy who are in charge of the word of God but in His mercy who will be in charge of the world. It's the time above all else for wild rejoicing- like getting out of jail, like being cured of cancer, like finally at long last coming home. And it is at hand, Jesus says."
                          -Frederick Buechner

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"This life, therefore, is not godliness but the process of becoming godly, not health but getting well, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not now what we shall be, but we are on the way. The process is not yet finished but it is actively going on. This is not the goal but it is the right road. At present, everything does not gleam and sparkle, but everything is being cleansed."
                     Martin Luther

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"Not of the unmaking but of making. The old field of space, time, matter and the senses to be weeded, dug and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of the old field: God is not."
                            C.S. Lewis

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"We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams, wandering by lone sea-breakers, and sitting by desolate streams, world-losers and world forsakers, upon whom the pale moon gleams; yet we are the movers and shakers, of the world forever, it seems."
     Arthur O'Shaughnessy

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"True christianity is not a life of working, but of becoming. It is in the pursuit of seeing the glory of the Lord and being changed by that glory into His same image."
       Rick Joyner

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"We are not called to be successful, but to be faithful."
        Mother Teresa

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"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."
       Jim Elliot

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"The soul is dyed with the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the full light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is who you become."
     Heraclitus

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"Love does not stop nicely to calculate the less or more; love does not stop to work out how little it can respectably give. With a kind of divine extravagance, love gives everything it has and never counts the cost. Calculation is never any part of love."
                 William Barclay

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"We are not always sure where the horizon is. We would not know "which end is up" were it not for the shimmering pathway of light falling on the white sea. The One who laid earth's foundations and settled its dimensions knows where the lines are drawn. He gives all the light we need for trust and obedience."
         -Elisabeth Elliot

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"Sometimes in the contrast of the night, we can best see the glory of God."
             Beth Moore