As they perform this ritual, I almost have to turn away, thinking again what a boomeranging, out-of-body experience it is to watch a religious childhood from the outside, when before I was in the very marrow of it.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
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Abraham Lincoln
And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history–money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery–the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.
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C.s. Lewis
I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
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Mae West
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
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Malcolm X
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
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Swami Vivekananda
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