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adversity men open-minded
Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity. Will Rogers
adversity trends horrible
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that? Winston Churchill
adversity issues doubt
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.
adversity years wish
I am weary of a task which is done and I hope I shall not shrink when the aftermath ends. My only wish is to live peacefully out the remaining years - if years they be.
adversity drunk down-and
I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.
adversity office feelings
If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace.
adversity broken darkness
I will begin by saying what everybody would like to ignore or forget... we have sustained a total and unmitigated defeat... All is over. Silent, mournful, abandoned, broken, Czechoslovakia recedes into the darkness... We are in the presence of a disaster of the first magnitude which has befallen Great Britain and France. Do not let us blind ourselves to that... Do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning.
adversity dark night
If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey. Rufus Jones
adversity black clouds crystal falls hope hour rain
In the hour of adversity be not without hope For crystal rain falls from black clouds Persian Proverb
sight perspective shifting
Humanism . . . is not a single hypothesis or theorem, and it dwells on no new facts. It is rather a slow shifting in the philosophic perspective, making things appear as from a new centre of interest or point of sight. William James
sight firsts tire
A blaze first pleases and then tires the sight. Samuel Johnson
sight use oneself
To examine oneself makes good use of sight. Zhuangzi
sight tasks helping
The task for sociology is to come to the help of the individual. We have to be in service of freedom. It is something we have lost sight of. Zygmunt Bauman
sight
The same God who created Rembrandt created you, and you are as precious in God’s sight as Rembrandt or anyone else. Zig Ziglar
sight spirituality accepting
Everything is "acceptable" in the sight of God, for how can God not accept that which is? To reject a thing is to deny that it exists. Neale Donald Walsch
sight ends exceed
When the amount of change externally exceeds the amount of change internally, the end is in sight. Jack Welch
sight doors grace
Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at first sight; it is ye who open the door and let the stranger in. Laurence Sterne
sight standing within
They are under everybody's radar. If you are standing in your back yard, you are within sight of one. Charles Davis
trials poverty judgment
A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment. Warren E. Burger
trials kira failing
You will fail. Then they will kill you." - Vandara to Kira, following Kira's trial. Lois Lowry
trials hardship response
It is not the trials in your life that develop or destroy you, but rather your response to those hardships. Charles Stanley
trials fairs fair-trial
A fair trial would have been no trial at all. Angela Davis
trials television radio
The heightened public clamor resulting from radio and television coverage will inevitably result in prejudice. Trial by television is, therefore, foreign to our system. Tom C. Clark
trials development inheritance
How you deal with life’s trials is part of the development of your faith. Strength comes when you remember that you have a divine nature, an inheritance of infinite worth. Russell M. Nelson
trials importance attorney
Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well. Michael Crichton
trials obstacles defeat
Trials, obstacles, difficulties and sometimes defeats, are the very food of faith. George Muller
trials conflict crosses
Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary. J. C. Ryle