Sarov Quotes

#1. Strange though it is,Sarov still cares about you. He told me to leave you alone. But I think, this time, I must disobey the general. You are mine! And I intend to make you suffer ... "
"Just talking to you makes me suffer," Alex said.

Anthony Horowitz

#2. The speed limit on most of Maui's highways is forty miles per hour, but my mother never went above thirty.

Hanya Yanagihara

#3. Masculinizing God is the first step in positing a hierarchy in which males situate themselves beneath God and above women, implying that there is a symbolic (and sometimes literal) continuum between God's Rule over humans and male rule over women.

Asma Barlas

#4. The gift of kindness brightens the life of other people.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. When you're blessed, the haters come out. When you wear God's blessings well, don't be surprised if it draws jealousy out on people.

Joel Osteen

#6. Whatever you do, do it gently and unhurriedly, because virtue is not a pear to be eaten in one bite.

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#7. Every success in anything we should refer to the Lord and with the Prophet say: 'Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to Your name give glory' (Ps. 113:9).

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#8. Maintain a spirit of peace and you will save a thousand souls.

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#9. The Lord sometimes allows people who are devoted to Him to fall into such dreadful vices; and this is in order to prevent them from falling into a still greater sin-pride. Your temptation will pass and you will spend the remaining days of your life in humility. Only do not forget your sin.

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#10. The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils, and prayer, and almsgiving, and every good deed done for Christ's sake, they are only means of acquiring the Holy Spirit of God.

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#11. Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.

Frank Herbert

#12. If you sing a song, you never be sad.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Usually when I wielded a hockey stick, it meant somebody was going to get hurt. This is just a friendly match.

Stan Mikita

#14. I like enthusiasts of any kind.

Roald Dahl

#15. Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.

Anne Lamott

#16. Can one, seeing the sun with one's sensuous eyes, not rejoice? But how much more joyful it is when the mind sees with its inner eye the Sun of justice, Christ! Then in truth one rejoices with angelic joy; of this the Apostle too said: 'Our conversation is in heaven' (Phil. 3:20).

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#17. It is up to us to add labors to labors in order to go from strength to strength (Ps. 83:7), and to come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Eph. 4:13)?

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#18. If men be good, government cannot be bad.

William Penn

#19. The body is a slave, the soul a sovereign, and therefore it is due to Divine mercy when the body is worn out by illness: for thereby the passions are weakened, and a man comes to himself; indeed, bodily illness itself is sometimes caused by the passions.

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#20. I'm not here to tell you that I am God, but that You are, and that you're no more or less so than any neighbor, regardless of where. What tomorrow is there, other than the world our grandchildren will share everywhere?

Anonymous

#21. Acquire a peaceful spirit, and thousands around you will be saved.

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#22. The human spirit lies open to God alone, for it is a fathomless depth.

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#23. Establish yourself in God and then you will be helpful to others.

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#24. Those who have truly decided to serve the Lord God should practice the remembrance of God and uninterrupted prayer to Jesus Christ, mentally saying: Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

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#25. Bear sorrows for the sake of the Heavenly Kingdom. Without sorrows there is no salvation. On the other hand, the Kingdom of God awaits those who have patiently endured. And all the glory of the world is nothing in comparison. My joy! I implore you to acquire a peaceful spirit.

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#26. My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

Berthe Morisot

#27. Good engineering is characterized by gradual, stepwise refinement of products that yields increased performance under given constraints and with given resources.

Niklaus Wirth