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That perfect devoting ourselves to God, from which devotion has its name, requires that we should not only do the will of God, but also that we should do it with love. "He loveth a cheerful giver," and without the heart no obedience is acceptable to Him.


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LON KRUGER That was a big momentum changer. We didn't get a body on him.
LON KRUGER We had some good looks, but we probably needed to go inside more.
LON KRUGER They turned it up at the start of the second half and we didn't handle it well. We needed to be a li...
LON KRUGER No question that when Louis makes his free throws, it helps everything. He's going up to the line be...
LON KRUGER Typically, infection occurs only after hours of tick attachment, so people can reduce their risk by ...
LON KIGHTLINGER From the outside looking in, people would see this as a clean state. To come here is seen as lower r...
LON KIGHTLINGER I didn't expect the FEMA camp to be as organized and as helpful as they were. FEMA has taken a lot o...
LON LACK Between 35,000 to 40,000 homes were destroyed. Even the upper-middle class homes look like slums now...
LON LACK The whole county is literally garbage and trash out on the streets. It's total devastation. Way wors...
LON LACK I wasn't prepared for what I saw. It was much, much worse than what I thought it was going to be. Th...
LON LACK We're a product of the Sixties and Seventies, and we just won't let go.
LON MILES Obviously we want people to come and root us on, but it's kind of sad for an institution like the Le...
LON MILES The kids just can't wait.
LON PUGH I added some extra roles to involve more students.
LON PUGH The nice thing about this cast is that we have quite a few veterans from other productions, but we h...
LON PUGH The cast is absolutely up to the challenge. I feel that I have a very strong cast.
LON PUGH He was broadcasting the Giants from Candlestick on the final day of 1962 when they beat Houston and ...
LON SIMMONS I think it's an award he would have really cherished. He tried to act like it didn't mean much, but ...
LON SIMMONS We did a nationwide survey of tapes to find someone who could step in and do baseball when I was gon...
LON SIMMONS The one thing I regret is that he passed before he got a chance to get into the baseball Hall of Fam...
LON SIMMONS We've lost a unique person, no doubt about that.
LON SIMMONS We're working very closely with his management and himself and we're going to develop an overall str...
LON ROSEN What we're trying to do here is represent the elite, the top at each one of their fields, and we fee...
LON ROSEN The greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.
MOLIÈRE From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I...
ANDRÉ MAUROIS The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerit...
ANDRÉ GIDE Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly i...
ANDRÉ DUBUS Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward togethe...
ANTOINE DE SAINT ÉXUPÉRY Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line ...
HENRI FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL We will have no other master but our caprice -- that is to say, our evil self will have no God, and ...
HENRI-FRÉDÉRIC AMIEL It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you ...
LON MILO DUQUETTE The whole crazy business seemed to pull out of my guts the very worst in me—my worst fears—the w...
LON MILO DUQUETTE In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over...
FRAN LEBOWITZ If you wait for the right time or the good times to start a business, you wait all your life.
FRAN TARKENTON Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.
FRAN DRESCHER Television isn't my career. Business is.
FRAN TARKENTON What's so wonderful about football and business and show business is that every time I start thi...
FRAN TARKENTON You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it&...
FRAN TARKENTON Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team b...
FRAN TARKENTON In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
FRAN TARKENTON The greatness of America is capitalism, free market capitalism. The exceptionalism of American busin...
FRAN TARKENTON That's how I judge a quarterback: Either you make plays or you don't. I don't even want ...
FRAN TARKENTON The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn'...
FRAN TARKENTON You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can y...
FRAN TARKENTON Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
FRAN TARKENTON Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.
FRAN TARKENTON I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play...
FRAN LEBOWITZ The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
FRAN LEBOWITZ