Laura said faintly, 'I thought God takes care of us.'' He does, ' Pa said, 'so far as we do what's right. And He gives us a conscience and brains to know what's right. But He leaves it to us to do as we please. That's the difference between us and everything else in creation. Laura Ingalls Wilder
Freedom is an absolute state, there is no such thing as being half-free.
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Daniel Delgado F
Imagination is cheap as long as you don't have to worry about the details.
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Daniel C. Dennett
No one else can want for me. No one can substitute his act of will for mine. It does sometimes happen that someone very much wants me to want what he wants. This is the moment when the impassable frontier between him and me, which...
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John Paul II
For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John.
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C.s. Lewis
God isn't about making good things happen to you, or bad things happen to you. He's all about you making choices--exercising the gift of free will. God wants you to have good things and a good life, but He won't gift wrap them for you....
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Jim Butcher
More Quotes By Laura Ingalls Wilder
Mary was bigger than Laura, and she had a rag doll named Nettie. Laura had only a corncob wrapped in a handkerchief, but it was a good doll. It was named Susan. It wasn't Susan's fault that she was only a corncob. Sometimes Mary let...
The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.
There was no time to lose, no time to waste in rest or play. The life of the earth comes up with a rush in the springtime.
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green...
The snug log house looked just as it always had. It did not seem to know they were going away.
