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SUNDAY ADELAJA The election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as pope is an enormous disappointment for all those who ho...
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KELLY JONES The Rich believes because they've got money,so others should serve them,No,rather they've been beque...
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IN THE MAKING Unlike 'other' religious belief systems in competition with Christianity, we have not been called to...
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CARL BERNSTEIN When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way.
HENRY HON Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid....
~DOCTOR WHO The world is more than the sum of its suffering.
DEEPAK CHOPRA The things i know now, i never knew then. I wish i knew.
SOTONYE ANGA In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music....
GARY F EVANS... Everybody is somebobdy and I chanllenge anybody to deny it.
KATHERINE PATERSON If you are a misfit in one place, you will be a great fit in another.
ALAN COHEN You can't make footprints in the sands of time by sitting on your butt. And who wants to leave buttp...
BOB MOAWAD You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER A love lust for war ends in death...
PHILIP T. M. There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one ...
DONALD DAVIDSON Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr...
BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Savor the moment. Set a goal that you value and plan the steps to of getting there in a way that you...
TERENCE T. GORSKI God is not impressed with what PRECEDES your name, but how you PROCEED in His Name."
BJ NELSON When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo...
RICK RIORDAN We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a...
JEANETTE CORON The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it...
THOMAS S. MONSON Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN If we change our thoughts from 'it's too late' to, 'there's still hope', we might see some change in...
KELLIE ELMORE The Church is Christ’s witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.
JOHN PAUL WARREN That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere...
J.D. SALINGER Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over.
RICHARD CARLSON The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
CRAIG GROESCHEL These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had ind...
ASHIM SHANKER I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE A place in the sun, that's what I am aiming for... and who could ever ask for more?' -Columbine to P...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.
MICHEL FABER History is made so that we can learn from it but like all lessons in life, if they are not learned w...
GARY F EVANS... World will change for betterment only when HEART of majority of individuals grows in size to accomod...
ANUJ SOMANY We talk about wanting to change the world, and we often picture this as a lofty goal reached only by...
ROSIE BLYTHE I have no complaints, except for the world.
BARBARA KRUGER The world is inviolable: it has no beginning and no end. Those who seek to change it will be changed...
MALINDA LO There's no denying it now. I'm in the world. And, too, the world is in me.
NICOLA YOON Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.
MARK TWAIN The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.
MUTANT ENEMY, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Life's irony;Fear the world for it is a dangerous place,for they are only waiting for you to arrive,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Almost all people talk vociferously and publicly about the change until their financial position cha...
ANUJ SOMANY Every person who changed the world did it by doing something everyone around them was unwilling to d...
TIFFANY L. JACKSON The world is changed not by the self-regarding, but by men and women prepared to make fools of thems...
P.D. JAMES Now i know what it feels like being Ryan Bingham
ARIEL SERAPHINO To have the time to reminisce is one of the futures gifts. Don't think to much, don't live to fast, ...
CALVIN WILSON We are the masters of our own destinies we shape and mould our lives into to the circumstances surro...
GARY F EVANS... No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever."
"Forever has no mea...
ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'...
W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti...
WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al...
J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey...
ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live.
THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now.
JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft...
ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f...
GARY F EVANS... It seems like all the best people have all the worst habits.
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY I had a best friend once 20 years down the line a friendship that you just do not get now, i regarde...
GARY F EVANS... Tongues are a miraculous manifestations of being filled with the Holy Ghost.
PST ADELAJA SUNDAY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I’m pretty sure there are some things in the dark that we’re not meant to see.
KARINA HALLE I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �...
NEIL GAIMAN She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get...
RUDOLPH DELSON There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds ...
R.C. SPROUL JR. Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC If the United States government is not serving the interests of the people, then it is because the p...
DWIGHT W. HAYES Dedication is the preparation to success!
WERNER BOTHA Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end.
GEORGE A. MOORE He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY Nicolas Cage is the best for taking the role of character Joker. He is pretty damn good at jokes!
DEYTH BANGER Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed...
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LAURA CARDINAL They (the Board of Supervisors) ignored or glossed over that distinction.
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CARDINAL J. GIBBONS Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.
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CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.
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CARDINAL J. NEWMAN If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.
HENRY CARDINAL NEWMAN Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
CARDINAL DE RICHELIEU Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'
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FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.
FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
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FRANCIS CARDINAL SPELLMAN Every numerous assembly is a mob; everything there depends on instantaneous turns.
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CARDINAL DE RETZ This is a very damaging confusion.
CARDINAL PAUL POUPARD Culture plays a fundamental role for relations between Christians and Muslims.
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JEAN MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.
JEAN MARIE CARDINAL LUSTIGER Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
LEON JOSEPH CARDINAL SUENENS By my hand and for the good of the state; the bearer has done what has been done. Hmmmm ~~~ one shou...
CARDINAL RICHELIEU FOUR MUSKETEERS The people wish to be deceived; let them be deceived. [Lat., Populus vult decipi; decipiatur.]
CARDINAL CARLO CARAFA (OR CARAFFA) She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average.
CARDINAL JEAN FRANCOIS DE RETZ One way or another, we all fight for what we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?
TOM CLANCY, 'THE CARDINAL OF THE KREMLIN'