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No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life perfectly to keep the Commandments.
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The world, the flesh, the devil.
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From envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitableness.
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Man that is born of woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He comet up, and is ...
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We therefore commit his body to the ground; earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure an...
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We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we...
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Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world.
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The pomps and vanity of this wicked world.
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We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which w...
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Afflicted, or distressed, in mind, body, or estate.
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Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
To do my duty in that state of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
An outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Grant that the old Adam in these persons may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in the...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
To have and to hold from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickne...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
(Matrimony) is not by any to be entered into unadvisedly or lightly; but reverently, discreetly, ad...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
To love, cherish, and to obey.
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
In the midst of life we are in death. Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continu...
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Whose service is perfect freedom.
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To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness ...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
There was never anything by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continu...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust; in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection into eter...
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
A joyful and pleasant thing it is to be thankful
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER
There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whisk...
ELIZABETH GILBERT
We tend to use prayer as a last resort, but God wants it to be our first line of defense. We pray wh...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
No one particular religion has been able to secure the exclusive rights for the power of prayer. No ...
MASARU EMOTO
During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions...
THOMAS HOBBES
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone shoudl be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to b...
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...I will go and do what the Lord hath commanded, for I know that the Lord giveth no commandments un...
BOOK OF MORMON
And now, my beloved brethren, and also aJew, and all ye ends of the earth, hearken unto these words ...
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of...
ROALD DAHL
if there is any worry in your mind, and if at that moment the words 'My Lord' comes to your lips, th...
SWAMI SHARNANAND JI
All the King's Men. There are all sorts of awful rumors out there that the movie is really bad.
DREW KUNIN
They can add all sorts of other charges ... they don't have to throw the book at him at the beginnin...
LORD HAILSHAM
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from ...
JAN KARON
Temples and churches have become social centers. They have lost their original purpose because the m...
SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA
Back in Mozart's time it was very common to perform operas in all sorts of languages. His native ton...
ERIC SMITHEY
Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales...
JOHN CALVIN
When we lose sight of God we become hard and dogmatic. We hurl our own petitions at God’s throne a...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance. It is laying hold of His willingness.
MARTIN LUTHER
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...
GEORGE GISSING
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...
GEORGE ROBERT GISSING
Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
Maxims of Ptahhotep spoke a lot of sense; 'Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer ...
KARL WIGGINS
Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals, are in imitation of fighting.
JONATHAN SWIFT
A basket of ripe fruit is holier than any prayer book.
MARTY RUBIN
I suppose people could hide all sorts of equipment in all sorts of clothing,
ALEXANDER DOWNER
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all ...
PLATO
They're sensational!
HARRY STYLES
If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.
ANUJ SOMANY
While majority find business in berating the spoilt brat “Problem” for distressing and disturbin...
ANUJ SOMANY
To be Thankful to someone who has helped change your life for ever is a small consolation for what t...
GARY F EVANS...
I need to learn bigger words and do those (things).
GREAT APE
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman'...
CAMILLE ANNA PAGLIA
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman'...
CAMILLE PAGLIA
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and i...
MILLARD FILLMORE
What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and nove...
E.M. BOUNDS
I've partnered with all sorts of people over many, many years in all sorts of ways.
DOUGLAS I. FOY
I'm 19, I'm a girl, I'm very young, I like all sorts of different things, I like all sor...
JOSS STONE
Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman&...
CAMILLE PAGLIA
The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous busin...
LOIS MCMASTER BUJOLD
Prayer does not alter that which God has determined; it never changes anything. It merely achieves w...
WATCHMAN NEE
He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacr...
JOHN CALVIN
In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.
DAVID STEINDL-RAST
All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors wh...
ISAAC ASIMOV
In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a...
TAYLOR SCHILLING
Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL II
Homo is a common name to all men.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of ind...
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
But charity is the PURE LOVE OF CHRIST, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it ...
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Hope is the poor man's bread.
THALES OF MILETUS
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
WILLIAM OF OCCAM
Suddenly is the soul oned to God when it is truly peaced in itself: for in Him is found no wrath. An...
JULIAN OF NORWICH
What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
ROBERT OF DONCASTE
True repentance is to cease from sinning.
AMBROSE OF MILAN
True recollection has characteristics by which it can be easily recognized. It produces a certain ef...
TERESA OF AVILA
We
BAND OF BROTHERS
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnerab...
CRITIAS OF ATHENS
My father told me that if you saw a man in a Rolls Royce you could be sure he was not a gentleman un...
EARL OF ARRAN
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting things.
ARCHIBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse wil...
DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
Do not dismayed daughters, at the number of things which you have to consider before setting out on ...
TERESA OF AVILA
Shun security.
THALES OF MILETOS
Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him th...
CATHERINE OF SIENA
I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
XENOCRATES OF CHALCEDON
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
MENANDER OF ATHENS
Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.
CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of f...
EARL OF CHESTERFIELD
Most men are bad.
BIAS OF PRIENE
Character is fate. (Destiny)
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
If you will discipline yourself to make your mind self-sufficient you will thereby be least vulnera...
CRITIAS OF ATHENS
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
HIPPOCRATES OF IPHICRATES
Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest n...
MECHTHILD OF MAGDENBURG
Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHAGORAS
Manners maketh man.
WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You as...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wick...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
ZENO OF CITIUM
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and spee...
MAXIMS OF PTAHHOTEP
Has not peace honours and glories of her own unattended by the dangers of war?
HERMOCRATES OF SYRACUSE
From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound ...
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH
O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintan...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA
Great and glorious God, and Thou Lord Jesus, I pray you shed abroad your light in the darkness of my...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The Father willed that his blessed and glorious Son, whom he gave to us and who was born for us, sho...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the ...
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
It would behoove the world to become used to this fact: that without a just solution to the Palestin...
HUSSEIN OF JORDAN
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the firs...
JOAN OF ARC
A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI
For it is in giving that we receive.
FRANCIS OF ASSISI