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• From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God will work with mighty converting power.

  John Mott

  Prayer, Spirit, Pentecost

  World Student Christian Federation, John Raleigh Mott (1898). “The World's Student Christian Federation: Origin, Objects and Significance of the Federation; the Convention at Northfield and Williamstown; Some Achievements of the First Two Years”

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• Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to come in to us. All He needs is access. He enters in of His own accord, because He desires to come in. To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs, and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them. And that requires no strength. It is only a question of our wills. Will we give Jesus access to our needs?.

  Ole Hallesby

  Jesus, Prayer, Moving

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• All of our holy fathers knew this and all with one accord teach that perfection in holiness can be achieved only through humility.

  John Cassian

  Father, Humility, Perfection

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• The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this.

  Confucius

  Regret, Mean, Men

  James Legge, Confucius, Mencius, Shih ching (1867). “The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius”, p.288

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• Happy the youth who believes that his duty is to remake the world and bring it more in accord with virtue and justice, more in accord with his own heart. Woe to whoever commences his life without lunacy.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Believe, Heart, Justice

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• Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.

  Joseph Addison

  Women, Passion, Mind

  Joseph Addison (1721). “Remarks on several parts of Italy , &c in the years 1701, 1702, 1703. The Tatler. By Isaac Bickerstaffe, esq. The Spectator, no.1-89”, p.519

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• God will never allow any action against you that is not in accord with His will for you. And His will is always directed to our good.

  Jerry Bridges

  Action, Gods Will

  Jerry Bridges (2016). “Trusting God”, p.72, NavPress

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• I see this evident, that we willingly accord to piety only the services that flatter our passions.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Passion, Flattery, Piety

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.323, Stanford University Press

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• And therefore, as when there is a controversy in an account, the parties must by their own accord, set up for right Reason, the Reason of some Arbitrator, or Judge, to whose sentence, they will both stand, or their controversy must either come to blows, or be undecided, for want of a right Reason constituted by Nature; so is it also in all debates of what kind soever.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Party, Blow, Judging

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.25, Hackett Publishing

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• In accord with his original intent, the heavenly Father has in fact prepared an individualized kingdom for every person, from the outset of creation.

  Dallas Willard

  Father, Kingdoms, Facts

  Dallas Willard (2009). “The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God”, p.49, Harper Collins

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• We can be confident that action which is in accord with a few basic beliefs cannot be wrong and can at least testify to the values we will need to cultivate. These are the beliefs that the human race is a family that has inherited a place on the earth in common, that its members have an obligation to work toward sharing it so that none is deprived of the elementary needs for life, and that all have a responsibility to leave it undegraded for those who follow.

  Gilbert F. White

  Responsibility, Race, Environmental

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• I always felt better co-writing something - always co-writing. Because if I was the lead of it and it failed, then it failed on my own accord. I would say, "Well, I liked it or I screwed up. I take the hit on this one."

  Bill Hader

  Writing, Wells, Screwed Up

  Source: deadline.com

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• External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Traitor, Camps

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialisation, mechanisation, urbanisation and exploding population.

  Reid Bryson

  Air, Environmental, Population

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• I am in exact accord with the belief of Thomas Edison that spirit is immortal, that there is a continuing center of character in each personality. But I don't know what spirit is, nor matter either. I suspect they are forms of the same thing. I never could see anything in this reputed antagonism between spirit and matter. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life.

  Henry Ford

  Beautiful, Character, Personality

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• Some of the best things that have happened in my stories have happened seemingly of their own accord. The writer becomes a listener, just writing things down as they come.

  Will Hobbs

  Writing, Stories, Best Things

  Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu

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• How happily, said Austerlitz, have I sat over a book in the deepening twilight until I could no longer make out the words and my mind began to wander, and how secure have I felt seated at the desk in my house in the dark night, just watching the tip of my pencil in the lamplight following its shadow, as if of its own accord and with perfect fidelity, while that shadow moved regularly from left to right, line by line, over the ruled paper.

  W. G. Sebald

  Book, Twilight, Dark

  W.G. Sebald (2014). “Austerlitz”, p.140, Vintage Canada

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• My cousin Francis and I are in perfect accord - he wants Milan, and so do I.

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

  Cousin, Perfect, Want

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• Imitation is the surest form of flattery and failure. I am not interested with your talk about my ideas. I am more interested in your applying them to your life. If you do not, then you are essentially not in accord with your own mind.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Ideas, Mind, Flattery

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• Pay no heed to those who tell you that they have relinquished place and power of their own accord, and from their love of quiet. For almost always they have been brought to this retirement by their insufficiency and against their will.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Retirement, Pay, Quiet

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• When you drive your car, E = mc2 is at work. As the engine burns gasoline to produce energy in the form of motion, it does so by converting some of the gasoline's mass into energy, in accord with Einstein's formula.

  Brian Greene

  Car, Energy, Doe

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• From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome has sent so much help there. It's always peace, agreements. We must respect the Minsk accords and so on. This is the entirety. But, don't get scared by that phrase. And this is a lesson that a piece of news must be interpreted with the hermeneutic of everything and not just a part.

  Pope Francis

  Fighting, Agreement, Rome

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• Now, as at the beginning of the 19th century, there is a certain discovery of Eckhart and related figures. There are questions as to how far our Eckhart accords with the real medieval teacher of that name, but there are certainly images in his work that help us work our way past several of the aporia with which we're confronted in our attempts to think about God.

  George Pattison

  Teacher, Real, Past

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• Afghanistan is just one of those countries that no group can conquer. It's so challenging to live, and the people are so close among their own tribes, their own groups, that you can't rule them all, you can't get an accord from all of them.

  Bill Murray

  Country, People, Challenges

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My body is in accord with my mind, my mind with my energies, my energies with my spirit, my spirit with Nothing.

  Lie Yukou

  Mind, Taoism, Energy

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