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“Honestly, seriously, you don’t know what to do about food? Here is an idea: Eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid’s cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods whenever your favorite show is not on when you want it on, ease up on the snacking and—don’t act like you don’t know this—eat vegetables and fruits more. Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up.”
― Dan John, Mass Made Simple

“Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials.”
― Smith Wigglesworth

“Men in the vehement pursuit of happiness grasp at the first object which offers to them any prospect of satisfaction, but immediately they turn an introspective eye and ask, ‘Am I happy?’ and at once from their innermost being a voice answers distinctly, ‘No, you are as poor and as miserable as before.' Then they think it was the object that deceived them and turn precipitately to another. But the second holds as little satisfaction as the first…Wandering then through life restless and tormented, at each successive station they think that happiness dwells at the next, but when they reach it happiness is no longer there. In whatever position they may find themselves there is always another one which they discern from afar, and which but to touch, they think, is to find the wished delight, but when the goal is reached discontent has followed on the way stands in haunting constancy before them.”
― Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“One must chose in life between boredom and suffering.”
― Madame De Stael

“The secret of spiritual success is a hunger that persists…It is an awful condition to be satisfied with one’s spiritual attainments…God was and is looking for hungry, thirsty people.”
― Smith Wigglesworth

“God wants to purify our minds until we can bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things. God dwells in you, but you cannot have this divine power until you live and walk in the Holy Ghost, until the power of the new life is greater than the old life.”
― Smith Wigglesworth, Smith Wigglesworth on Prayer, Power, and Miracles

“A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.”
― Charles G. Finney

“By pleasing her whims, I lost track of mine. A servant you’ll be, a friend she’ll see.”
― Pook, The Book of Pook

“Alle Kraft der Menschen wird erworben durch Kampf mit sich selbst und Überwindung seiner selbst.”
― Johann Gottlieb Fichte

“I know the resurrection is a fact, and Watergate proved it to me. How? Because 12 men testified they had seen Jesus raised from the dead, then they proclaimed that truth for 40 years, never once denying it. Every one was beaten, tortured, stoned and put in prison. They would not have endured that if it weren't true. Watergate embroiled 12 of the most powerful men in the world-and they couldn't keep a lie for three weeks. You're telling me 12 apostles could keep a lie for 40 years? Absolutely impossible.”
― Charles Colson

“Rejection is better than Regret.”
― Pook

“You are caught in the vicious cycle. You are hesitant because you are not used for
things going your way. And things will never go your way because you remain
hesitant. You see what you want, become hesitant, and the door of opportunity
closes. It happens again. And again. And again. With each choice towards
Inaction, you reject yourself a little bit more.”
― Pook, The Book of Pook

“Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.”
― Philip Rieff, The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

“In the struggle with the English mechanistic dumbing down of the world, Hegel and Schopenhauer (along with Goethe) were unanimous—both of these hostile fraternal geniuses in philosophy, who moved away from each other towards opposite poles of the German spirit and, in the process, wronged each other, as only brothers do.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“Apparently, we go forward.”
― Novalis, Pollen and Fragments: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Flight from the communal spirit is death!”
― Novalis

“Do nothing or everything; the mediocre, the moderate, is repellent to me; I prefer an extreme.”
― Johann Georg Hamann

“I came to Rome when it was a city of stone ... and left it a city of marble”
― Julius Caesar