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The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the con...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder. Leon Cass

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clappi...

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Jonathan HaidtThe Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

With passion you want to possess. The conversion of passion into compassion is the whole problem of ...

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How to teach again what has been taught correctly it incorrectly 1000 thousand times, throughout the...

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The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

The imitation of Christ is the joyful participation in the sorrows of the world.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

Mythology is to relate found truth to the living of a life.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.

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Jules VerneJourney to the Center of the Earth

Describing the relationship between the biblical witnesses and the theologians who come after, the a...

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Karl BarthEvangelical Theology: An Introduction

He keeps his voice kindly but remote. A cross between a pedagogue, soothsayer, and a benevolent uncl...

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The big idea here is not, have you sinned, but are you changing?

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself – self-discipline, self-control.

Any religious person who says he does not really need human friends because God is his Friend is cal...

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Mark DriscollReal Marriage: The Truth About Sex

When religion becomes so involved in a future good "over yonder" that it forgets the present evils o...

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When an actor reaches down into his emotional well and pulls up a deeply personal response, the audi...

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Martin SheenAlong the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

Just open your eyes! I thought. These desperate poor are your gurus.

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Martin SheenAlong the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

The line between spontaneity and stupidity can be very thin.

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Martin SheenAlong the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

Kids don't always stop to judge or analyze a new experience unless the adults around them react stro...

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Martin SheenAlong the Way: The Journey of a Father and Son

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the rig...

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Michael KordaClouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

Unless a person can give reasons, there is, literally, no reason why anyone else should take that pe...

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The power of the bleeding love of God is stronger than the power of Caesar, of the law, of Mars, Mam...

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We have to grow into Scripture, like a young boy inheriting his older brother's clothes and flopping...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

Successful resistance to temptation may result in an increase of moral muscle, but that is because o...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

What Paul understands by holiness or sanctification (is) the learning in the present of the habits w...

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N.T. WrightAfter You Believe: Why Christian Character Matters

The longer you look at Jesus, the more you will want to serve him in his world. That is, of course, ...

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N.T. WrightFollowing Jesus: Biblical Reflections on Discipleship

To many, "The Bible is a form of verbal wallpaper, pleasant enough in the background, but he stop th...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Christian spirituality combines a sense of the awe and majesty of God with a sense of His intimate p...

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N.T. WrightSimply Christian: Why Christianity Makes Sense

Tell someone to do something, and you change their life–for a day; tell someone a story and you chan...

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The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some ...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

A prophet is not someone who first had an idea. He is the one to first believe in it and take it to ...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebAntifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Being self-owned is a state of mind.

The "show business," which is so incorporated into our view of Christian work today, has caused us t...

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We are not built for mountains and dawns and artistic affinities; they are for moments of inspiratio...

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There is no condition of life in which we cannot abide in Jesus. We have to learn to abide in Him wh...

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The Sermon on the Mount is not a set of principles to be obeyed apart from identification with Jesus...

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The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in pers...

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The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. ...

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Oswald ChambersBringing Sons Into Glory and Making All Things New

You cannot have a moral holiday and remain moral, nor can you have a spiritual holiday and remain sp...

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Oswald ChambersMy Utmost for His Highest

The test of mountain-top experiences, of mysticism, of visions of God and of solitariness is when yo...

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The call of God is a call according to the nature of God; where we go in obedience to that call depe...

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The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that ...

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There is nothing I like better than conversing with aged men. For I regard them as travelers who hav...

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There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The ...

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If any have more of the government of thee than Christ, or if thou hadst rather live after any other...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

Many of your relationship problems are not really relationship problems. They're personal problems t...

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The Mother Thing makes our world.

Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallo...

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The nobility of England would have snored through the Sermon on the Mount. But you'll labor like sch...

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We advise disciples not to follow anyone. Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his res...

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Samael Aun WeorThe Major Mysteries: The Gnostic Jesus and the Path of Initiation

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd...

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We would like a church that again asserts that God, not nations, rules the world, that the boundarie...

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Stanley HauerwasResident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony

We can actually live out the trials and temptations of the day before they come. We can in prayer de...

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She had been carried away by the need to defend herself.

So many people of liberal persuasion value their own progressive opinions more than they value the p...

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The follower aspires with all his strength to be what he admires. And then, remarkably enough, even ...

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Kings can only use their best tools.

Middle-aged people can balance between believing in God and breaking all the commandments without di...

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If you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way.

After a sharp inward struggle, he concluded to stay and see it out. He should despise himself, more ...

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That is the Proctor. He is our Cerberus; he has to keep all undergraduates in good order." "What a t...

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While he was conscious of improving at every stroke, he did not feel that the other was asserting an...

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We listened, as all boys in their better moods will listen (ay, and men too for the matter of that),...

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The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, "in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you,...

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The sweet spot is where duty and delight converge.

He's not a safe safe or a tame God, securely lodged behind the bars of a distant Heaven; He has the ...

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Courage was not something one picked out of the air. It was something like a bank account. You could...

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Not every story started off big enough to notice.

At the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of Heaven fills those who are quitting the light o...

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The goodness of the mother is written in the gaiety of the child.

You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career....

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As much as Henry Kissinger wanted to attribute historical movement to impersonal forces, he too conc...

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Walter IsaacsonAmerican Sketches: Great Leaders

I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to sh...

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She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

Winnie the Pooh finds comfort in counting his pots of honey, and Rabbit finds comfort in knowing whe...

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Knowledge (curriculum) and behavior (pedagogy) are embedded in everyone’s core beliefs about the nat...

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The greatest gift a church can receive is to have a group of families who take their responsibilitie...

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The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Evangelism cant be our focus! We must not stop sharing the good news, but here’s the deal, here’s th...

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There are only three ways to teach a child. The first is by example, the second is by example, the t...

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Make use of every friend— and every foe.

I had rather mistrust my own capacity than God's justice.

When justice is more certain and more mild, is at the same time more efficacious.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but tha...

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The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself,

It is no accident that the words discipline and disciple resemble each other in the English language...

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We are commissioned to make disciples, to bring them into the same direct relationship with Christ a...

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To be a disciple of Jesus means to learn from Him, to follow Him. The cost may be high.

Many Christians want the benefits of their belief, but they hesitate at the cost of discipleship.

Jesus Christ spoke frankly to His disciples concerning the future . . .In unmistakable language He t...

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Christ never told his disciples that they would get an Academy Award for their performances, but He ...

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