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A good sermon is an engineering operation by which a chasm is bridged ...   Religion
A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.  
Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it. Bitterness paralyzes life...  
Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profi...   Change
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary po...  
Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.   Business
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get thin...  
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.  
He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on;...  
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. ...  
He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no cala...  
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery ...  
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.  
Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.  
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives ...  
Our power is not so much in us as through us.  
Preaching is personal counseling on a group basis.  
Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you ...  
The fact that astronomies change while the stars abide is a true analo...  
The half is greater than the whole.  
The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men...  
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places...