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Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can’t stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they’ll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That’s love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There’s something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies. (from "Loving Your Enemies").Unknown
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In a time of destruction, create something.Maxine Hong Kingston
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Any philosophy, whether of a religious or political nature - and sometimes the dividing line is hard to determine - fights less for the negative destruction of the opposing ideology than for the positive promotion of its own. Hence its struggle is less defensive than offensive. It therefore has the advantage even in determining the goal, since this goal represents the victory of its own idea, while, conversely, it is hard to determine when the negative aim of the destruction of a hostile doctrine may be regarded as achieved and assured. For this reason alone, the philosophy's offensive will be more systematic and also more powerful than the defensive against a philosophy, since here, too, as always, the attack and not the defence makes the decision. The fight against a spiritual power with methods of violence remains defensive, however, until the sword becomes the support, the herald and disseminator, of a new spiritual doctrine.Adolf Hitler
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You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.Criss Jami
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The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-at-homes. There are no humane methods of warfare, there is no such thing as civilized warfare; all warfare is inhuman, all warfare is barbaric; the first blast of the bugles of war ever sounds for the time being the funeral knell of human progress… What lover of humanity can view with anything but horror the prospect of this ruthless destruction of human life. Yet this is war: war for which all the jingoes are howling, war to which all the hopes of the world are being sacrificed, war to which a mad ruling class would plunge a mad world.James Connolly
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Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reason ignored his attainable desires. By promising man eternal life, it deprived him of temporal life, by teaching him to trust in God’s help it took away his trust in his own powers; by giving him faith in a better life in heaven, it destroyed his faith in a better life on earth and his striving to attain such a life. Christianity gave man what his imagination desires, but for that very reason failed to give him what he really and truly desires.Ludwig Feuerbach
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You ruin is your rebellion against God.Lailah Gifty Akita
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To break yourself loose from the dominion, ruler-ship and manipulation of the devil, you have to embrace light (knowledge).Sunday Adelaja
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The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do is because you are living in ignorance (darkness) which is his territory.Sunday Adelaja
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As long as you are ready to pay this price for living in the light (knowledge) the darkness (ignorance) becomes a servant to you.Sunday Adelaja
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We can choose to live under the rulership of God or under the rulership of the devil.Sunday Adelaja
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When you live in darkness, you live under the rulership of the devil.Sunday Adelaja
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Every risk that you take in order for you to come into significance is the greatest kind of risk to take.Sunday Adelaja
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Go all the way and let your soul be in what you are doing and there will be no limitations.Sunday Adelaja
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Finding meaning for life is simply coming into significance because you have been able to accomplish and fulfill your purpose.Sunday Adelaja
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When you know that you know to the extent of committing your life to a just cause, then nothing will be able to stop you.Sunday Adelaja
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If you have committed all things to impacting a life at a time, or impacting a community or society, then welcome to a life of significance.Sunday Adelaja
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Believe that your life is not ordinary and never look down on what you can do to impact a life.Sunday Adelaja
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You can be in the vanguard of those that bring a change to the community and to the nation as a whole.Sunday Adelaja
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Your voice could go to where your feet could not go.Sunday Adelaja
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Your resources could go to where your hands could not reach.Sunday Adelaja
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Look up and hook up to a life of significance and don’t look down on yourself.Sunday Adelaja
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A person could waste an important part of his living if he refuses to come into significance; if he refuses to impact lives around, the family and in the community or in the society.Sunday Adelaja
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You need to encourage yourself especially if you know you are on the path of significance.Sunday Adelaja
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For your life to have meaning is to discover what you are meant to fulfill.Sunday Adelaja
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Your anger towards ungodliness, towards injustice and the likes, will create a hunger in you to fulfill a particular purpose meant for you.Sunday Adelaja
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Your anger and fury at ungodliness and injustice around you is a license given to you to fulfill a purpose.Sunday Adelaja
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Those irritations and uneasiness you are faced with are evidence that you have an assignment to fulfill.Sunday Adelaja
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Everyone desires significance but not everyone is ready to go through the process of being ‘pregnant’ with the requirements that would make them to be significant.Sunday Adelaja
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Each individual needs to be pregnant with the seed of purpose.Sunday Adelaja
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You have to discover what makes you different in your society.Sunday Adelaja
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Find out what you need to do to express your importance.Sunday Adelaja
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The principles of godliness must be ensured to be received by all in the community, city and the nation, even by the young and old.Sunday Adelaja
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What you discover valuable to you can make all the difference in your life.Sunday Adelaja
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If it is only one thing in life that you have or allowed to discover, then it must be your significance.Sunday Adelaja
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You need to discover something that will impact humanity.Sunday Adelaja
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Discover what you need to do to make your life have meaning.Sunday Adelaja
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Godliness must be presented with its profit and incentives, not only for the good of the nation and society, but of eternal value.Sunday Adelaja
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When what you are insulted by meets what you have a strong desire to do, then that would bring you significance.Sunday Adelaja
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It is a good thing to live long but it is much more important to make a difference in life by living a life of significance.Sunday Adelaja
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A life that is actually lived is one that is with significance.Sunday Adelaja
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When you live for the purpose of making a difference for the people, for society, for the things that are beyond you, then significance will not be able to elude you.Sunday Adelaja
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When you have discovered your significance, your life will now begin to move towards making a difference.Sunday Adelaja
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Be prepared to be on the race to fulfill and to achieve fulfillment.Sunday Adelaja
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In the pursuit of wholeness, there will surely be challenges but you need to keep going.Sunday Adelaja
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Your purpose is more than just being happy, but it’s about making others to be blessed and happy.Sunday Adelaja
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The principle of godliness must be believed and embedded as the culture to live by.Sunday Adelaja
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When your life gets to the stage of being mindful and concerned with impacting and blessing lives, then you are pursuing wholeness as an individual.Sunday Adelaja
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You have to live intentionally as one with a unique purpose and determination.Sunday Adelaja
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After you have made the discovery of your own significance, you would then be able to find the reason to stay alive.Sunday Adelaja
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It is only those that live intentionally that can accomplish and come to the significance meant for them.Sunday Adelaja
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To live intentionally implies that it is not going to be always convenient but it is what will take you to significance if you do not give up.Sunday Adelaja
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It takes wisdom, power and influence to be able to make a positive impact on what goes on in society and in the nation as a whole.Sunday Adelaja
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In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so as to make such preposterous choices, then it’s not all that preposterous to believe that shortly our end will be in sight.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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But the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.Clarice Lispector
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When Mother Nature turns on us, I hope that she doesn't show the same compassion that we, humans, show to the environment and all the other life here on Earth.Anthony T. Hincks
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There is still hope that if the people refuse to give up and keep silent, no matter how long or inconsequential their voices could be at the beginning, it would still be heard and justice be served.Sunday Adelaja
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Guard yourself with a positive attitude, conviction, hope and fulfillment of your heart’s desire.Sunday Adelaja
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Easter is a marvelous affirmation of the genius of our design, but it is likewise the blunt acknowledgement that left to its own devices, the genius of our design will result in the destruction of our lives.Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.Markus Zusak
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Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day.William Shakespeare
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Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.J.A. Baker
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Ready for the cheap escape On the brink of self destruction Widespread panic Broken glass inside my head Bleeding down these thoughts ~Tanya Gambhir
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Let your faith be in the Lord Jesus and not in your strength, to fight against ungodliness and injustice in the society.Sunday Adelaja
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If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment.Sunday Adelaja
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Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.Ray Bradbury
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Everything might scatter. You might be right. I suppose it's something we can't easily get away from. People need to feel they belong. To a nation, to a race. Otherwise, who knows what might happen? This civilisation of ours, perhaps it'll just collapse. And everything scatter, as you put it.Kazuo Ishiguro
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Have you ever thought what a God would be like who actually ordained and executed the cruelty that is in [the biblical Book of Revelation]? A holocaust of mankind. Yet so many of these Bible-men accept the idea without a second thought.C.J. Sansom
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Many [Tudor-era religious radicals] believed then, exactly as Christian fundamentalists do today, that they lived in the 'last days' before Armageddon and, again just as now, saw signs all around in the world that they took as certain proof that the Apocalypse was imminent. Again like fundamentalists today, they looked on the prospect of the violent destruction of mankind without turning a hair. The remarkable similarity between the first Tudor Puritans and the fanatics among today's Christian fundamentalists extends to their selective reading of the Bible, their emphasis on the Book of Revelation, their certainty of their rightness, even to their phraseology. Where the Book of Revelation is concerned, I share the view of Guy, that the early church fathers released something very dangerous on the world when, after much deliberation, they decided to include it in the Christian canon."].C.J. Sansom
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If the ignorance of nature gave birth to such a variety of gods, the knowledge of this nature is calculated to destroy them.Unknown
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No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.Robert McKee
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Where the spirit of godliness is, where there are godly principles in action, where there is justice and peace, there will surely be prosperity.Sunday Adelaja
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The group of people that are insulting the society with ungodliness are those that are out rightly known with ungodliness and those that try to mimic godliness.Sunday Adelaja
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The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it.Sunday Adelaja
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It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.Sunday Adelaja
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Godliness is not just a doctrine, a belief or a principle, it has a personality.Sunday Adelaja
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To embrace the spirit of godliness is to embrace everything godliness stands for.Sunday Adelaja
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Godliness has already come in human flesh to rescue humanity from its own ungodliness.Sunday Adelaja
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The teaching of godliness must be preached and taught in every available medium.Sunday Adelaja
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Ungodliness has always declared war on godliness.Sunday Adelaja
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A fruit that comes forth is the desire and joy for the labour of a farmer.Sunday Adelaja
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When greed is enthroned, be it in a community or nation, ungodliness is celebrated at the altar of human pleasure.Sunday Adelaja
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Your anger against every form of insult and oppression must be out of love.Sunday Adelaja
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When you are pushed to the wall, you will act and do things you have never done before.Sunday Adelaja
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You are not entitled to stand or speak on behalf of the people or society, except that you are already provoked.Sunday Adelaja
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Whatever it is in life that is worth attaining, there must be something that is provoking an individual to go for that thing passionately.Sunday Adelaja
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Poverty is a force that pulls down the head of the people.Sunday Adelaja
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Everyone who fights always fight with a purpose in mind.Sunday Adelaja
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The light of the Kingdom of God remains the strongest weapon for you to fight with in order to have a continuous victory over the enemies.Sunday Adelaja
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You must be determined to overcome the insults of the ungodliness of this world with the weapon of the light inside of you.Sunday Adelaja
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A steward in the above scripture is a servant who serves.Sunday Adelaja
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Wherever you are, be ready to create the enabling spiritual atmosphere for the sake of the kingdom of God.Sunday Adelaja
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The kingdom of God is depending on you to make the atmosphere more conducive for the purpose of prospering the Kingdom of God.Sunday Adelaja
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There is definitely a positive aspect of anger such as, anger at sin and anger at ungodliness or injustice of the society.Sunday Adelaja
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There is no one or group of people that would ever be free from bondage without making room for a change.Sunday Adelaja
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There is no one or a group that would ever be able to achieve or accomplish anything unique except that they are angry with their situation.Sunday Adelaja
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A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.Sunday Adelaja