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Follow the grain in your own wood.


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Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive



In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

In the stillness of the quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.



Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.

Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.



There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'

There are two questions that we have to ask ourselves. The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?'



Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.

Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers.



It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.

It cannot be denied that too often the weight of the Christian movement has been on the side of the strong and the powerful and against the weak and oppressed-this, despite the gospel.



Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.



Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.



Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.

Jesus rejected hatred because he saw that hatred meant death to the mind, death to the spirit, and death to communion with his Father. He affirmed life; and hatred was the great denial.



During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.





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Let your Creed be to do a Good Deed. When your Focus is on your Need instead of your Greed, you will succeed.



Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.

Mankind will never know peace until the last politician is strangled to death with the entrails of the last priest.



If God does indeed exist, then He is good, and He is just, and He stands upon the side of right.

If God does indeed exist, then He is good, and He is just, and He stands upon the side of right.



I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle?

I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle?



And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed?



Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.

Leaders create an environment in which everyone has the opportunity to do work which matches his potential capability and for which an equitable differential reward is provided.



Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.



You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.

You can really get poked in the back and not feel it very much, but just a feather around your lips and you really do feel it.



The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.

The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid.



Leaders lead by virtue of who they are.

Leaders lead by virtue of who they are.




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