100 Quotes About Us

We all know that the U.S. is the most important country in the world, but what do we know about it? What kind of people live there? What do they love? Here are some of the most interesting facts about America’s most famous land.

Life is hell, at some point we all just have...
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Life is hell, at some point we all just have to get used to it. Alysha Speer
I could forget that part, but it had to have...
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I could forget that part, but it had to have been true. Deb Caletti
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This is the us you wanted us to be, Gwen. Kristen Ashley
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It's the smell of him in the bathroom, all I need to get ready for the day. Watching him get dressed, and the sound in the kitchen; a slow hum of a song and his movements, picking things to eat. The way I could observe him, for hours, just go on with his day — or as he sleeps — simply breathing in and out, in and out, and it's like the hymn that sings me to peace. I know the world is still out there and I know I'm not yet friendly to its pace, but as long as I know him with me, here, there, somewhere — us — I know I have a chance. . Charlotte Eriksson
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Trump’s America is not America: not today’s or tomorrow’s, but yesterday’s. Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid. There is no hope in it; there is no light in it. It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation. And that is a vision of America that most of the people in this country cannot and will not abide. Charles M. Blow
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We are going to win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the Almighty God are embodied in our echoing demands. So however difficult it is during this period, however difficult it is to continue to live with the agony and the continued existence of racism, however difficult it is to live amidst the constant hurt, the constant insult and the constant disrespect, I can still sing we shall overcome. We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice. We shall overcome because Carlisle is right. "No lie can live forever." We shall overcome because William Cullen Bryant is right. "Truth crushed to earth will rise again." We shall overcome because James Russell Lowell is right. "Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne."   Yet that scaffold sways the future. We shall overcome because the Bible is right.  "You shall reap what you sow." With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to speed up the day when all of God's children all over this nation - black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old negro spiritual, "Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty, We are Free At Last. . Unknown
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Abraham Lincoln quoted the Scriptures in an 1858 speech to the Illinois Republican Convention. He said, “ A house divided against itself cannot stand.” That, I fear, is where diversity leads. If by that term we refer to love and tolerance for peoples who are different from one another, it has great validity for us. But if by diversity we mean that all of us have been given reason to resent one another. Having no common values, heritage, commitment, or hope, then we are a nation in serious trouble. James C. Dobson
When it's clear that we have a commitment to God...
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When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most people will respect us even if they don't share our faith. Craig Groeschel
God never gave up on us. We did!
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God never gave up on us. We did! Anthony T. Hincks
Grace is available to us from God, but it is...
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Grace is available to us from God, but it is located in our place of work Sunday Adelaja
God will open His truths and His secret to us...
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God will open His truths and His secret to us so that we can have success Sunday Adelaja
The most important thing is for us to use the...
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The most important thing is for us to use the advantage we have properly and our success will be matchless Sunday Adelaja
God alone knows how to bring success and strengthen us...
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God alone knows how to bring success and strengthen us in it Sunday Adelaja
Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there...
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Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise. Michelle Obama
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We met at a cross-roads in life, But we were going different directions. We were part of each other's lives, But only for a moment. The first person that you meet in life Won't necessarily be the one who's forever. Just look at you and me, And it's not hard to see that This is the moment before life goes on. We are still friends; We are still really good friends. Please tell me that you agree. But I'm not the one for you, And you just can't see yourself with me. . Margo T. Rose
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We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. . Thurgood Marshall
God made us for a specific purpose
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God made us for a specific purpose Sunday Adelaja
You cannot free someonewho is caged intheir own self.
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You cannot free someonewho is caged intheir own self. Anjum Choudhary
Destruction wasn't when you chose to destroy me. It was...
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Destruction wasn't when you chose to destroy me. It was when i let you. Anjum Choudhary
I was lost for too longbut when i found you,...
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I was lost for too longbut when i found you, i could feel it in my bones. You were my home. Anjum Choudhary
Take me to your darkest cornersand watch your demonssurrender to...
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Take me to your darkest cornersand watch your demonssurrender to mine.. Anjum Choudhary
Master the art of selfloveand you will never have to...
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Master the art of selfloveand you will never have to seekvalidationever again. Anjum Choudhary
I am no one's to be claimed, I belong to...
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I am no one's to be claimed, I belong to me. Anjum Choudhary
I stopped losing my sleep over you... Now i lie...
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I stopped losing my sleep over you... Now i lie awakein search of me! ! Anjum Choudhary
It's okay darling, creative people are called crazyall the time.
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It's okay darling, creative people are called crazyall the time. Anjum Choudhary
Every relationship that we have with people today is either...
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Every relationship that we have with people today is either lifting us up or dragging us down Sunday Adelaja
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I think people need to recognize that those of us who have been so much influenced by violence in the media- in particular pornographic violence- are not some kinds of inherent monsters. We are your sons, and we are your husbands. And we grew up in regular families. James C. Dobson
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And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are. Colson Whitehead
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Across the sea fat kings watched and were gleeful, that something begun so well had now gone off the rails (as down South similar kings watched), and if it went off the rails, so went the whole kit, forever, and if someone ever thought to start it up again, well, it would be said (and said truly): The rabble cannot manage itself. Well, the rabble could. The rabble would. He would lead the rabble in managing. The thing would be won. George Saunders
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When Hughes writes, in the first two lines of his poem, “Let America be America again/ Let it be the dream it used to be, ” he acknowledges that America is primarily a dream, a hope, an aspiration, that may never be fully attainable, but that spurs us to be better, to be larger. He follows this with the repeated counterpoint, “America never was America to me, ” and through the rest of this remarkable poem he alternates between the oppressed and the wronged of America, and the great dreams that they have for their country, that can never be extinguished. Harry Belafonte
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Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to their time and country have been waged by many good as well as by evil men. Nationalism is a relatively recent phenomenon but at other times and places the ends have been racial or territorial security, support of a dynasty or regime, and particular plans for saving souls. As first and moderate methods to attain unity have failed, those bent on its accomplishment must resort to an ever-increasing severity. Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard. It seems trite but necessary to say that the First Amendment to our Constitution was designed to avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings. There is no mysticism in the American concept of the State or of the nature or origin of its authority. We set up government by consent of the governed, and the Bill of Rights denies those in power any legal opportunity to coerce that consent. Authority here is to be controlled by public opinion, not public opinion by authority. If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein. Robert H. Jackson
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Independence Day is a day of truth, It stands for us, Both me and you, It gives us hope, To fight on days, When there are others against us, What more can I say. It gives us glory, Our land to share, With each other, We shall not despair. The land of freedom, Our liberty tall, She shines her torch, For one and all. The fourth of July, Is our special day, It's when we came of age, That's all I'll say. God Bless! . Anthony T. Hincks
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If this were a courageous country, it would ask Gloria to lead itsince she is sane and funny and beautiful and smartand the National Leaders we've always hadare not. When I listen to her talk about women's rightschildren's rightsmen's rights I think of the long line of Americans who should have been president, but weren't. Imagine Crazy Horse as president. Sojourner Truth.John Brown. Harriet Tubman. Black Elk or Geronimo.Imagine President Martin Luther King confrontingthe youthful "Oppie" Oppenheimer. Imagine PresidentMalcolm X going after the Klan. Imagine President StevieWonder dealing with the "Truly Needy."Imagine President Shirley Chisholm, Ron Dellums, or Sweet Honey in the Rockdealing with Anything.It is imagining to make us weep with frustration, as we languish under real estate dealers, killers, and bad actors. Alice Walker
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To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we're going to have to be willing to get our hands dirty, to make some sacrifices that provides long-term benefits instead of short-term, refinanced gains. God is willing to help us, to provide the tools we need to weed out those areas where our desire for money is spoiling our fruit of the Spirit. Craig Groeschel
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And shall we at last become the victims of our own abominable lust of gain? Forbid it, Heaven." Washington himself could be a hard driving businessman, yet he found the rapacity of many vendors unconscionable. As he told George Mason, he thought it the intent of the speculators, various tribes of money makers and stock jobbers of all denominations, to continue the war for their own private emolument, without considering that their avarice and thirst for gain must plunge everything in one common ruin. Ron Chernow
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(regarding Charles Lee) This eccentric and notably slovenly man was always trailed by his beloved dogs. "When I can be convinced that men are as worthy objects as dogs", he once explained, "I shall transfer my benevolence to them. Ron Chernow
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One of the things, though, that has always afflicted the American reality and the American vision is this aversion to history. History is not something you read about in a book, history is not even the past–it’s the present. Because everybody operates, whether or not we know it, out of assumptions which are produced and produced only by our history. Now the history of this country is not bloodier than other countries, but it’s bloody. It is not more criminal than that of other countries, but it’s criminal. Or in short, it’s not worse than the history of France or England or any country we can name–but it’s different. James Baldwin
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The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history. Steven Magee
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They are always the problem. There is no evil in this world you cannot blame on them. The world will never be right as long as they exist. Whereas we are right, we are always right. We desire to make the world a better place whereas they either consciously desire to make it worse or else are willing to make it so through wrong ideas. There is only one way to make the world we are trying to create, and that is to get rid of them, get rid of every last one of them. And the only way to do that is to stop creating them. Because there is no “they” until we choose to see someone as such. When we choose to see the humanity in everyone, then there is no more they, there is only us. James Rozoff
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As humanity progresses its technology on a global level, the observed degradation of natural processes and growth cycles are the alarm systems that nature uses to alert us that some of this progress is biologically toxic. Steven Magee
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17. One of the secrets of successful living is found in the word balance, referring to the avoidance of harmful extremes. We need food, but we should not overeat. We should work, but not make work our only activity. We should play, but not let play rule us. Throughout life, it will be important to find the safety of the middle ground rather than the imbalance of the extremes. James C. Dobson
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The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it causes us great pain to let go. When we do this, we maximize the chances that that loved one will not leave, because the cage door has been opened and self-respect has been affirmed. James Dobson
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So many of us are causing pain and suffering to ourselves on daily basis, because we do not know the value of life. Sunday Adelaja
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I've written you sixty-seven love poems. Here’s another one for you. But really, for me. These poems are the candles that I light with the fire you have ignited in me. I place this candle here and another thereso even if the stars have argued with the moonand are sulking away in a corner, you can still find your way to me. Sixty-eight poems now. What does the future hold for us? Joy? Disappointment? Gentle caresses? And subtle neglect? I hope the good is more than the bad. Much more. For what is the point of loveif by lighting these candlesour own flame loses its brightness? I know the good is more than the bad. Much more. I cannot wait to write you sixty-nine. Kamand Kojouri
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My dear, please be careful. You no longer live only for yourself. You live for me as well. Kamand Kojouri
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Seeds of talents and abilities have been placed in us Sunday Adelaja
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God put a certain potential into us that is totally sufficient to carry out the assigned task Sunday Adelaja
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God wants to take care of us, raise us up and direct us in life Sunday Adelaja
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God wants to advise us and stretch out His Almighty hand of help towards us Sunday Adelaja
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If we are established in a ministry it will be very difficult for the devil to uproot us Sunday Adelaja
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God’s constant wealth is accessible to us, if we cultivate His holiness in our lives Sunday Adelaja
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God wants us to do everything according to His plan Sunday Adelaja
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It is very important how efficiently and wisely we manage and plan to use the blessings that God has already given to us Sunday Adelaja
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God’s secrets are always revealed to us, the children of God Sunday Adelaja
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He puts us here to make an eternal difference. He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He loves them. He puts us here to be His hands and feet, His body and His heart. Craig Groeschel
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You let go of my hand to hold on to my heart Distance grasps us tightnow that we are apart Munia Khan
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Every one of us can do something about the truth. You can at least stand for the truth wherever you are. You can refuse to compromise the truth. Of course you can tell the truth. Truth could be proclaimed. Truth could be protected. There are so many responses to the truth that would please the heart of our master. Heaven awaits only your decision Sunday Adelaja
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EVERYONE IS A KING OR QUEEN, YOU DONT NEED A CROWN TO SHOW IT. Genereux Philip
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Whether right or wrong, it is my belief that Christian colleges place their emphasis not on that which divides us, but on the substance that binds us together. That commonality is the gospel of Jesus Christ. He commanded us to love one another–to set aside our differences and to care for “the least of these” among us. It is our unity, not our diversity, that deserves our allegiance. James C. Dobson
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A president should be approachable; understanding of people's problems and needs; he should be fair and equitable; he should listen with an open mind and a closed mouth; he shouldn't make a decision without all the facts and above all else, he must be honest to the people. Anything else and he shouldn't be president. Anthony T. Hincks
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An idea was forming in his mind. It was only rudimentary, but in the circumstances, it could be called a plan. He loathed the alien for attacking them, without any provocation. He hated the way it was smashing up his ship — and all of them — with hardly any effort or regard for life at all. “How’s that message coming?”“ Umm — they must be jamming us, sir — I can’t get through. Christina Engela
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One of the most breathtaking concepts in all of Scripture is the revelation that God knows each of us personally and that we are in His mind both day and night. There is simply no way to comprehend the full implications of His love by the King of kings and Lord of lords. He is all-powerful and all-knowing, majestic and holy, from everlasting to everlasting. Why would He care about us–about our needs, our welfare, our fears? We have been discussing situations in which God doesn’t make sense. His concern for us mere mortals is the most inexplicable of all. James C. Dobson
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Each and every one of us was created to carry out justice, judgment, truth and equity on the earth. It could be in different spheres of life, in various professions or in diverse gifting. But the mandate is clear, his nature must be reflected on the earth. If he is a God of justice, people must see his justice on earth. If he is a God of sound judgment, that sound mind must be revealed in people who identify themselves with him on daily basis. If God is truth, that truth must reign supreme on the earth even as he reigns over the universe. If fairness, impartiality, equity, are his essence, that should become dominant in any society. Sunday Adelaja
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Of course we're guilty! - That's what we've got pardons for! Anthony T. Hincks
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Who's got the last laugh now? If you will pardon the expression. Anthony T. Hincks
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16. Christians should never consult astrologers, psychics, or those who practice witchcraft (see Isaiah 47:13-14). They are usually phonies who only pretend to have extrasensory powers. But in some cases, they are working in cooperation with Satan. Rather than tamper with this evil world, the one true God wants us to bring our needs, problems, and decisions to Him. He has promised to lead us into all truth (see John 8:32). James C. Dobson
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We do things because we want it, not because they’re good for us. Dominic Riccitello
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Come back to me. Where have you gone? And why so long? I miss the star below your lip, the constellation on your chest. I miss your ways, how you net butter-flying words and release themfor others to enjoy. I miss your tenderness, the sweetness of your breathand the song of your voice. I miss howyou worship me. Come back to me once more. Why did you go? And whatever for? The heavens plotted against us. The clouds came andpissed on our lives. The smell of charged particlesstill lingers in the air. What will become of you and I?Come back to us. . Kamand Kojouri
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Come to me. Why must you ruin this moment? You are burdened with thought. Burdened with the pastand expectations of the future. You are burdened with your self. Cast these aside by laughing at yourself. And love, for what more is there than to love me? Take me nowand let it be heaven for us. Kamand Kojouri
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It was perfect, but perfection is terrifying. Dominic Riccitello
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In our frenzied attempts to catch up with life, we run right past it. Once we have run past it, what we are in reality attempting to catch is ourselves. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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Diversity, rather than cohesiveness, is the new passion, and it pits us against each other for “rights. James C. Dobson
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Self-doubt imprisons those that never overcome it. Obiora Embry
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They have their opinions, but we have the answers. Anthony Liccione
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Ultimately not one amongst us Will ever be denied that, The glimmer of a chance to shine. Scott Hastie
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When in love or inspired, An eternal kiss from the divine Awaits us all. Scott Hastie
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No matter where you are involved with, your increase must have a purpose.multiplication of his children, He goes ahead to expatiate on his blessings to us Sunday Adelaja
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Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been and ever will be pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit. James Madison
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It seems to me that America is constantly reinventing what "America" means. Ronald Reagan
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Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ. James Gavin
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God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've found that the things that make us sad, the things that make us righteously angry, or the things we care about that others don't are often a key that unlocks our reason for living. It's our burden. Craig Groeschel
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Water is such a lifesaver into which we cannot breathe but without taking it into us we cannot live Munia Khan
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I no longer follow the voices of the sane. I follow the ill because they see farther, feel much more and change what the sane will not. This is the paradox of philosophers---trying to understand mass delusion among great people that have faith and knowledge, yet they can’t graduate from their institutions of religious theology to apply the knowledge they have gained for the shifting of Zion---- from words to action; from comfort to uncomfortable; from self serving to self giving; from competition to supporting; to tradition to unity; from bias to acceptance; from me to us. Shannon L. Alder
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And I wanted to believe that there could be an us. That some way, somehow there would be an us somewhere in the future that I could not see. Nade Marshall
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29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us. James C. Dobson
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The validity of Solomon's message has not changed in the three thousand years since he penned it. It comes down through the corridors of time and echoes today with the authority of God Himself. Solomon tells us that the divine commandments are a "light" that will show us "the way to life." But those who would disregard them, both male and female, will suffer the painful consequences. James C. Dobson
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For those of you out there today who have already been through hard times and are desperate for a word of encouragement, let me assure you that you can trust this Lord of heaven and earth. Remember that Scripture warns us to “lean not on your own understanding” (Proverbs 3:5). James C. Dobson
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If he aint tellin his boys about you, you aint the one. Genereux Philip
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For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus. Craig Groeschel
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There appears to be a vast amount of confusion on this point, but I do not know many Negroes who are eager to be "accepted" by white people, still less to be loved by them; they, the blacks, simply don't wish to be beaten over the head by the whites every instant of our brief passage on this planet. White people in this country will have quite enough to do in learning how to accept and love themselves and each other, and when they have achieved this -- which will not be tomorrow and will not be today and may very well be never -- the Negro problem will no longer exist, for it will no longer be needed. Unknown
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I think it's terrible the way people don't share things in this country. I think it's a heartless government that will let one baby be born owning a big piece of the country, the way I was born, and let another baby be born without owning anything. The least a government could do, it seems to me, is to divide things up fairly among the babies. Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
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We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity. Craig Groeschel
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To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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The problem with holiness is that once we look into the face of it we are no longer capable of taking that which is odious and filthy and somehow pretending that it’s translucent and clean. In other words, we have to do one of the most revolting things possible; we have to face ourselves. Craig D. Lounsbrough
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What I am recommending to the unmarried person, therefore, comes straight out of the Word: Stay out of bed unless you there alone! I know that advice is difficult to put into practice today. But I didn't make the rules. I'm just passing them along. God's moral laws are not designed to oppress us or deprive us of pleasure. They are there to protect us from the devastation of sin, including disease, heartache, divorce, and spiritual death. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity afterward is the Creator's own plan, and no one has devised a way to improve on it. James C. Dobson
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First we form habits, then they form us. Mark Matteson
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There is no Them. There are only facets of Us. John Green
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We all just need to be real. That is what will save us. A.D. Posey
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And the geography of the thing--the geography of them--was completely and hopelessly wrong. Jennifer E. Smith
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Too often, we judge other groups by their worst examples - while judging ourselves by our best intentions. And this has strained our bonds of understanding and common purpose. But Americans, I think, have a great advantage. To renew our unity, we only need to remember our values. We have never been held together by blood or background. We are bound by things of the spirit — by shared commitments to common ideals. George W. Bush