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A. B. Simpson Quotes: As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.
         

As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.


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Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.



God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.

God is not looking for extraordinary characters as His instruments, but He is looking for humble instruments through whom He can be honored throughout the ages.



Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.



For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.

For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.



I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!

I think there's a difference between ditzy and dumb. Dumb is just not knowing. Ditzy is having the courage to ask!



May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.



Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.

Is this chicken what I have or is this fish? I know it's tuna. But it says chicken. By the sea.



For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.



The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.

The solution is to first create an integrated economic development and recreation plan that addresses the needs of the people who live and recreate in central Idaho.



As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.

As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of prescription drugs.





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No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.



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What is in the well of the heart will come up through the bucket of the mouth.



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Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.



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The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.



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It is demonstrable and observable that our morals are based on our earliest spiritual beliefs. Matters of the Mind in no small measure have reflected matters of the Soul.



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