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#1

“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

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#2

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.”
― Dante Alighieri

tags: afterlife, attributed-no-source, hell, morality, neutrality

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#3

“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
― Ronald Reagan

tags: abortion, obvious, right-to-life

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#4

“It is the left that uses the clubs of race and class to attack those on the right; it is the left that labels religious people and traditional values people rubes and simpletons,”
― Ben Shapiro, Bullies

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#5

“Without a clear moral vision, we devolve into moral relativism, and from there, into oblivion.”
― Ben Shapiro, Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future

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#6

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#7

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.”
― John Milton, Areopagitica

tags: books, censorship, ideas, intellect

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#8

“What hath night to do with sleep?”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: night, paradise-lost, sleep

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#9

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Prayer

tags: catholicism, christian-living, christianity, gift, god, inspirational, philosophy, spirituality

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#10

“In each of us, two natures are at war – the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, and one of them must conquer. But in our own hands lies the power to choose – what we want most to be we are.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: good-and-evil, human-nature

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#11

“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

tags: goodbye, sadness

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#12

“We who believe in Divine Providence, in life after death, in salvation and resurrection; we, of all people, when faced with catastrophe, must go on with courage, faith, and hope.”
― Benedict J. Groeschel, Tears of God: Persevering in the Face of Great Sorrow or Catastrophe

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#13

“A man may be judged by his standard of entertainment as easily as by the standard of his work.”
― Ben Shapiro, Porn Generation: How Social Liberalism Is Corrupting Our Future

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#14

“This is. And thou art. There is no safety. There is no end. The word must be heard in silence. There must be darkness to see the stars. The dance is always danced above the hollow place, above the terrible abyss.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Farthest Shore

tags: balance, darkness

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#15

“If you think equality will stop the fighting, you're deluding yourself! If everyone receives the same compensation, they will stop working for it, which will lead to the weakening of our nation! The only result will be conflict born from poverty!”
― Adachitoka

tags: socialism

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#16

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost

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