Feast of Richard of Chichester, Bishop, 1253 Commemoration of Joseph Butler, Bishop of Durham, Moral Philosopher, 1752 The Christian should be a conscience in his group. His presence must never be used to provide a Christian justification for evil. To stand as a co-belligerent and not an ally will be to rally the middle ground for a genuine Third Way without mediocre compromise. The Third Way will not be easy. It will be lonely. Sometimes the Christian must have the courage to stand with the establishment, speaking boldly to the radicals and pointing out the destructive and counter-productive nature of their violence. At other times, he will stand as a co-belligerent with the radicals in their outrage and just demands for redress. The Christian is a co-belligerent with either or both when either or both are right, but... fearless in his opposition to either or both when they are wrong.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow... FREDERICK DOUGLASS He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Gros... WILLIAM BACKHOUSE What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and ho... MEISTER ECKHART 2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to devel... JAMES C. DOBSON The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... JOHN PIPER Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Commemoration of Samuel Seabury, First Anglican Bishop in North America, 1796 A Christian cannot ... LYOF N. TOLSTOY You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposit... MARTIN LUTHER Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How to change the world: • spread positivity • bring people up instead of dragging the... GERMANY KENT Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behavior m... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de... C. JOYBELL C. Sometimes you have to take a stand. Don't expect to win any popularity contests for it. After lettin... SHELLY KAY WALDE The gospel of Jesus Christ is an offense to both religion and irreligion. It can't be co-opted by ei... TIMOTHY J. KELLER And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. KARL RAHNER The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you wan... MARGARET MITCHELL The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion ... J. C. RYLE Genuine outrage is not just a permissible reaction to the hard-pressed Christian; God himself feels ... OS GUINNESS In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ... SOTONYE ANGA Why be an ostrich? MARGARET MITCHELL I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future. JEFFREY FRY Commemoration of Brooke Foss Westcott, Bishop of Durham, Teacher, 1901 As a good Christian should ... WILLIAM LAW To be or not to be that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
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