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#1

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
― Ernest Hemingway

tags: humility, self-improvement

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#2

“There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

tags: goodness, simplicity, truth

1052 likes

#3

“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
― Alexander Solzhenitsyn

tags: truth

402 likes

#4

“I am going to hold a pistol to the head of the Modern Man. But I shall not use it to kill him–only to bring him to life.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Manalive

tags: joy, life, pessimism

25 likes

#5

“The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Provocations: Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard

tags: bible, christianity

1166 likes

#6

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

tags: faith, god, prayer

4575 likes

#7

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

2034 likes

#8

“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
― Corrie ten Boom

tags: faith, future, god, trust

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#9

“Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

tags: christ, christianity, desire, god, heart, jesus, longing, peace, religion, rest, restlessness

2194 likes

#10

“Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.”
― Joni Eareckson Tada, The God I Love

tags: faith, god, inspirational, love

1915 likes

#11

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner

7214 likes

#12

“Being a fool for God was not merely alright but liberating.”
― Joy Davidman

tags: candor, humility, integrity, peace-of-mind

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#13

“Constantine saw with his own eyes the trophy of a cross of light in the heavens, above the sun, and bearing this inscription: conquer by this. At the sight, he himself was struck with amazement and his whole army also.”
― Eusebius, The Life of the Blessed Emperor Constantine: From 306 to AD 337

tags: catholicism, church-history, constantine, orthodoxy, patristics, saints

12 likes

#14

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

tags: civil-rights, free-speech, free-will, freedom, intelligence, liberty, stupidity

4220 likes

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