"As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, and condemnations."
-- Henri Nouwen
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"As long as we continue to live as if we are what we do, what we have, and what other people think about us, we will remain filled with judgments, opinions, and condemnations."
-- Henri Nouwen
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"Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children."
-- Charles Swindoll
"One of the greatest threats to faith is busyness. It's jumping from one thing to another, and therefore never developing the prayerful/contemplative side of our lives sufficiently so that we might hear God."
-- Lou Nanni, VP University of Notre Dame
"The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. No man becomes great on his own. No woman becomes great on her own. The people around them help make them great."
-- Matthew Kelly
"Resentment is like taking a poison and waiting for the other person to die."
-- Malachy McCourt
"We are born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone."
-- Nelson Mandela
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"Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them."
-- Richard Rohr
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"You can never really get enough of what you really don't need."
-- Matthew Kelly
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"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it."
-- Lou Holtz
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"Everything is possible for one who believes." -- Mark 9:23
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"In a culture of confusion and in a world of constant change, many people don't have a spiritual North Star, which is what God's dream for us provides."
-- Matthew Kelly
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"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The only thing missing in any situation is that which you are not giving."
-- Marianne Williamson, author, speaker
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn."
-- Unknown
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"The people we surround ourselves with either raise or lower our standards. No man becomes great on his own. No woman becomes great on her own. The people around them help make them great."
-- Matthew Kelly, internationally acclaimed author and speaker