Quotations on bill
God save me from being angry. Thy will be done.
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Pain is the touchstone of spiritual progress.
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Hold your face up to the Light, even though for the moment you do not see.
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We have to believe that we can really choose.
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a life which includes deep resentment leads only to futility and unhappiness.
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If we were to live, we had to be free from anger.
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The grouch and the sudden rage were not for us.
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Our oldtime attitude of "all or nothing" will have to be abandoned.
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We have found that God does not make too hard terms with those who seek Him.
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It becomes plain that the group must survive or the individual will not.
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Meditation is our step out into the sun.
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Above all, take it one day at a time.
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Pride is the basic breeder of most human difficulties.
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It is not the fault of great ideals that they are sometimes misused...
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Day by day, we try to move a little toward God's perfection.
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The deception of others is nearly always rooted in the deception of ourselves.
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...let's not louse this thing up. Let's keep it simple!
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...even Bacchus boomeranged on us.
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Fear can be a steppingstone to prudence and to a decent respect for others.
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Had we not worshipped people, sentiment, things, money, and ourselves?
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We have to grow or else deteriorate.
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For us, the status quo can only be for today, never for tomorrow.
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Act your way into good thinking.
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Change we must; we cannot stand still.
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we shall never know freedom under God until we try to seek His will for us.
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Gratitude should go forward, rather than backward.
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In God's economy, nothing is wasted.
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our better understanding is often rooted in the pains of our former follies.
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Resentment is the Number One offender.
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We demanded more than our share of security, prestige, and romance.
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our crippling handicap was our lack of humility.
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When first challenged to admit defeat, most of us revolted.
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Our whole trouble had been the misuse of will power.
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Too much of my life has been spent in dwelling upon the faults of others.
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the foundation stone of freedom from fear is that of faith
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One qualification for a useful life is give-and-take
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We who had won so handsomely in a walk turned into all-time losers.
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Fear somehow touched about every aspect of our lives.
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But did not we often set the ball rolling ourselves?
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It is better to comfort than to be comforted.
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My basic flaw had always been dependence on people or circumstances...
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Refusing to place God first, we had deprived ourselves of His help.
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look at excessive guilt for what it is: nothing but a sort of reverse pride
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God save me from being angry. Thy will be done.
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We discovered the best source of emotional stability to be God Himself.
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Change is the characteristic of all growth.
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Only God is unchanging; only He has all the truth there is.
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Thy will, not mine, be done.
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We cannot wholly rely on friends to solve all our difficulties.
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We had to quit playing God. It didn't work.
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We decided that hereafter ... God was going to be our Director.
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He would be the Principal; we, His agents.
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Prudence is rational concern without worry.
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As the body can fail its purpose for lack of nourishment, so can the soul.
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we are living to learn, to serve, and to love.
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We had to toss self-justification, self-pity, and anger right out the window.
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We had to quit the crazy contest for personal prestige and big bank balances.
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We had to take personal responsibility for our sorry state...
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my self-concern and importance become amusing.
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In belaboring the sins of some religious people, we could feel superior...
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Self-righteousness was our own besetting evil.
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We neither ran nor fought. But accept we did. And then we began to be free.
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we found that our troubles ... could be converted into unimagined blessings.
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Our first objective will be the development of self-restraint.
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Act your way into good thinking.
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I would have to be still and know that He, not I, was God.
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Let us never fear needed change.
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We no longer live in a completely hostile world.
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We are no longer lost and frightened and purposeless.
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We know that God lovingly watches over us.
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We know that when we turn to Him, all will be well with us...
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We need not apologize to anyone for depending upon the Creator.
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The verdict of the ages is that men of faith seldom lack courage.
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That basic ingredient of all humility, a desire to seek and do God's will...
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Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride.
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We subjected each relation to this test: Was it selfish or not?
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This, too, will pass.
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This experience can be turned to benefit.
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We think cheerfulness and laughter make for usefulness.
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What greater cause could there be for rejoicing than this?
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All true communication must be founded on mutual need.
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We shall fear no evil--Thy will, not ours, be done.
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We are not saints.
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The point is that we are willing to grow along spiritual lines.
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The principles we have set down are guides to progress.
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We claim spiritual progress rather than spiritual perfection.
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The process of enlightenment is usually slow.
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The willingness to grow is the essence of all spiritual development.
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The best we can do is strive for a better quality of honesty.
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Sometimes we need to place love ahead of indiscriminate "factual honesty".
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What is the best and most loving thing I can do?
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If we lean too heavily on people, they will sooner or later fail us...
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My dependency meant demand.
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For us, material well-being always follows spiritual progress...
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Nothing pays off like restraint of tongue and pen.
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Act your way into good thinking.
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Don't try to be a saint by Thursday!
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Faith without works is dead.
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Almost the only scoffers at prayer are those who never tried it enough.
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When our failings generate fear, we then have soul-sickness.
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Let us always love the best in others--and never fear the worst.
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We are sure God would like to see us happy, joyous, and free.
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Ain't it grand the wind stopped blowin'?
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We can try to stop making unreasonable demands upon those we love.
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We can show kindness where we had formerly shown none.
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The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us.
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With those we dislike we can at least begin to practice justice and courtesy.
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Adversity gives us more opportunity to grow than does comfort or success.
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There can be no absolute humility for us humans.
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Self-pity is one of the most unhappy and consuming defects that we know.
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The rule is, we must be hard on ourselves, but always considerate of others.
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Some of us have tried to hold on to our old ideas, and the result was nil...
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Do I want to be right or do I want to be free?
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God grant me the serenity to love their best, and never fear their worst.
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We found the Great Reality deep down within us.
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We trust infinite God rather than our finite selves.
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My own resentment, my self-pity would often render me well-nigh useless...
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Selfishness--self-centeredness! That, we think, is the root of our troubles.
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So our troubles, we think, are basically of our own making.
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Going it alone in spiritual matters is dangerous.
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My stability came out of trying to give, not out of demanding I receive.
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As God's people, we stand on our feet; we don't crawl before anyone.
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Emotionally speaking, we must not live in yesterday, nor in tomorrow.
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self-justification is a universal destroyer of harmony and of love.
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We began to see that the world and its people had really dominated us.
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We realized that the people who wronged us were perhaps spiritually sick.
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Today, we avoid retaliation or argument.
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We began to fear pain less, and desire humility more than ever.
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We had always said, "Grant me my wishes," instead of "Thy will be done."
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How do we meet the problems we face?
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When pain comes, we are expected to learn from it willingly...
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When happiness comes, we accept it as a gift, and thank God for it.
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In short, the "all or nothing" attitude is a most destructive one.
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Don't be discouraged by setbacks--just start over.
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If somebody hurts us and we are sore, we are in the wrong, too.
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even justified anger ought to be left to those better qualified to handle it.
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Do I want to be right or do I want to be free?
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Our human resources, as marshalled by the will, were not sufficient;
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Lack of power: That was our dilemma.
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I am waiting for you to do My will. -God
You had better do God's will or I will kill you. -John Barleycorn
Most people try to live by self-propulsion.
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Is he not really a self-seeker even when trying to be useful?
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Procrastination is really sloth in five syllables.
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Abandon yourself to God as you understand God.
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Live and Let Live
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I don't have the right to be hard on myself.
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Easy does it--but do it!
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