EVERYTHING WORTH HAVING HAS PAIN
"In everything worth having, even in every pleasure, there is a point of pain or tedium that must be survived, so that the pleasure may revive and endure: the joy of reading Virgil comes after the bore of learning him; the glow of the sea-bather comes after the icy
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Catholic
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Story: C.T. Studd (Charles Thomas Studd) (1860-1931) had this motto: "If Jesus Christ is God and died for me, then no
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Anglican
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a mans time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
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"I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do
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Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Apr 4, 2010
From the Talmud: "Elijah prayed that the keys of resurrection might be given him, but was answered, Three keys have not been entrusted to an agent: of birth,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Robert Leroe on Sep 22, 2002
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Eugene Peterson writes, “If we don’t want God, or don’t want Him very near, we can hardly be expected to be very
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Congregational
Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 8, 2006
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"A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling
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Contributed by Sherm Nichols on Nov 17, 2006
Karl Rahner, quoted in the Wittenburg Door – “The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim God with their mouths and deny Him with their
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Christian/Church Of Christ
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