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wisdom athlete soul
Souls are like athletes, that need opponents worthy of them, if they are to be tried and extended and pushed to the full use of their powers, and rewarded according to their capacity. Thomas Merton
wisdom hate mean
Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage.
wisdom prayer pride
It is a kind of pride to insist that none of our prayers should ever be petitions for our own needs: for this is only another subtle way of trying to put ourselves on the same plane as God – acting as if we had no needs, as if we were not creatures, not dependent on Him and dependent, by His will, on material things, too.
wisdom silence
Whose silence are you?
wisdom artist alchemist
Today the artist has inherited the combined functions of hermit, pilgrim, prophet, priest, shaman, sorcerer, soothsayer, alchemist.
wisdom order evil
In all His acts God orders all things, whether good or evil, for the good of those who know Him and seek Him and who strive to bring their own freedom under obedience to His divine purpose. All that is done by the will of God in secret is done for His glory and for the good of those whom He has chosen to share in His glory.
wisdom pain fall
The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God.
wisdom jobs believe
Who is willing to be satisfied with a job that expresses all his limitations? He will accept such work only as a 'means of livelihood' while he waits to discover his 'true vocation'. The world is full of unsuccessful businessmen who still secretly believe they were meant to be artists or writers or actors in the movies.
wisdom evil temptation
The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.
athlete race perfect
I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect. Roger Bannister
athlete race people
I couldn't disappoint people. I did not want to fail and exhaust myself, because I was the kind of runner who trained so little that I couldn't race again within another 10 days.
athlete simple race
I came from such a simple origin, without any great privilege, and I would say I also wanted to make a mark. It wasn't until I was about 15 that I appeared in a race.
athlete school acceptance
My athleticism was really the core to social acceptance, because in those days the overwhelming number of students came from more of a public school background than I did.
athlete passion trying
Christ always had a passion for whatever He was doing. That's how I try to define myself as an athlete. That's the example I try to follow. Torii Hunter
athlete given gold huge medal olympic program robin win
Robin is an exceptional athlete and for him to win Australia's first gold medal at an Olympic or world championship has given the program a huge boost. Richard Fox
athlete mentally physically prepared role tried wherever
I prepared for this role like an athlete would, so that I could do anything, physically or mentally that Scott wanted me to do, and be able to go wherever he tried to take me, Jennifer Carpenter
athlete hear kids school tv
I like the kids to see me in person. It is one thing when you see an athlete on TV say 'stay in school and do the right things' and it's another when you get to hear them say it in person.
athlete dangerous either great side sure wherever work
I'm pretty sure it would work pretty good. He's a great athlete and I'm sure he can do anything on either side of the ball. Most definitely, he's dangerous wherever he's at. Willis McGahee
soul facts feels
I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact. Alex Haley
soul foreigners havens
Foreigners have souls; the English haven't. George Mikes
soul cry creeps
We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar! Helen Keller
soul unexpected guilty
It was such an unexpected and genuine smile that if I only had a soul I'm sure I would have felt quite guilty. Jeff Lindsay
soul mind world
All the rest of the world could only kill or devastate my mind and body. Bones alone held the power to demolish my soul. Jeaniene Frost
soul noble
The noble soul reveres itself Friedrich Nietzsche
soul body want
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies. George Bernard Shaw
soul would-be events
No single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born. It would be a bit too easy if we could go about borrowing ready-made souls. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
soul mets alluring
He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met. Becca Fitzpatrick