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“Madam, when you are come to the other side of the water, and set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back to the water and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, you shall then be forced to say, "If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoying of this crown of glory.”
― Samuel Rutherford, Letters of Samuel Rutherford

tags: gratitude, providence, suffering

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“My focus is not on the flood that surrounds me. Rather, my focus is on the God Who surrounds the flood.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

tags: bible, christian, faith, flood, god, jesus, promises, providence, provision, strength

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#3

“In a clock, stop but one wheel and you stop every wheel, because they are dependent upon one another. So when God has ordered a thing for the present to be thus and thus, how do you know how many things depend upon this thing? God may have some work to do twenty years hence that depends on this passage of providence that falls out this day or this week.”
― Jeremiah Burroughs

tags: contentment, providence

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#4

“Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: adversity, providence, trials

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#5

“God never calls His people to accomplish anything without promising to supply their every need.”
― Charles R. Swindoll

tags: faith, god, providence, trust

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#6

“And so sovereign Providence has often produced a remarkable effect--evil men making other evil men good. For some, when they think they suffer injustice at the hands of the worst of men, burn with hatred for evil men, and being eager to be different from those they hate, have reformed and become virtuous. It is only the power of God to which evils may also be good, when by their proper use He elicits some good result.”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

tags: evil, providence, theodicy, virtue

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#7

“‎It isn't enough to stand up and fight darkness. You've got to stand apart from it, too. You've got to be different from it.”
― Jim Butcher, Fool Moon

tags: honor, morality, virtue

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#8

“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”
― Voltaire

tags: ignorance, knowledge, virginity, virtue

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#9

“We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

tags: strategy, virtue

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#10

“... everyone knows that ice cream is worth the trouble of being cold. Like all things virtuous, you have to suffer to gain the reward.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Rithmatist

tags: ice-cream, rewards, suffering, virtue

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#11

“Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way... you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.”
― Aristotle

tags: action, life, quality, virtue

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#12

“The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: excess, self-control, virtue

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#13

“He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.”
― C. S. Lewis

tags: virtue

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#14

“It is my wish that you may have at better and freer life than I have had. Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience; this was what upheld me in time of misery.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

tags: brothers, children, heiligenstadt-testmanent, virtue, will

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#15

“The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.”
― Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg

tags: virtue, wisdom

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#16

“Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves. Whistle and dance and shimmy, and you've got an audience!”
― Diogenes Laërtius

tags: philosophy, virtue

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#17

“My friend, you see how perishable are the riches of this world; there is nothing solid but virtue.”
― Voltaire

tags: virtue

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#18

“To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: vice, virtue

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#19

“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

tags: criticism, help, positive-thinking, praise

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#20

“If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
― Mother Teresa

tags: help, world, world-hunger, world-peace

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#21

“I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
― Mark Twain

tags: death, inspirational

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#22

“A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
― Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's Most Elegant Woman

tags: be-yourself, empowerment, girls, identity, individuality, self-determination, women

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#23

“Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: duty, identity, responsibility, uniqueness

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#24

“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
― Madonna

tags: art, creativity, identity, inspiration, life, self-esteem, self-love, strength, women

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#25

“I've tried

to become someone else for a while,
only to discover that he, too, was me.”
― Stephen Dunn

tags: identity, poem, poetry, self

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#26

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
― Heraclitus

tags: eternity, impermanence, journey, life, mujo

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#27

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
― Henry Ward Beecher

tags: excellence, inspirational, journey, judgment, personal-growth

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#28

“It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.”
― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

tags: appreciation, compassion, god, hope, inspirational, journey, life, motivational, observation

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#29

“The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.”
― Johann wolfgang von Goethe

tags: growth, journey, purpose

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#30

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
― Anatole France

tags: journey, process

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