Becoming Quotes - Page 3

• Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?

  Lottie Moon

  God, Christian, Religious

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.226, Mercer University Press

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• If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second-greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first-greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they're happy.

  Dorothy Parker

  Friendship, Happy, Writing

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• When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future.

  Rick Pitino

  Inspirational, Basketball, Cheating

  "Pitino Sorry for 'Indiscretion,' Gets to Keep His Job" by Mark Mooney, Michael James, abcnews.go.com. August 12, 2009.

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• Go to church once a week and nobody pays attention. Worship God seven days a week and you become strange!

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  God, Christian, Church

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• Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.

  Myrna Loy

  Life, Dance, Dancing

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

  Lawren Harris

  Life, Art, Long

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• We have become so engrossed in the work of the Lord that we have forgotten the Lord of the work.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

  The Banner Magazine (p. 2), December 4, 1970.

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• Not all thinking and all emotion are of the ego. They turn into ego only when you identify with them and they take you over completely, that is to say, when they become "I".

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.89, Penguin

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• The fastest way to become the master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the master of your thoughts and emotions. You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Rhonda Byrne (2013). “The Secret Daily Teachings”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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• I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”

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• The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

  Frank Warren

  Change, Children, Broken

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• On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers.

  George Pataki

  Bad Day, America, Usa

  "Pataki invokes 9/11 in Bush introduction". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2004.

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• Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.

  Christian Bauman

  Change, Writing, Persistence

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• Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.

  Tommy Tenney

  God, Fall, Sacrifice

  Tommy Tenney (1999). “The God Chasers: My Soul Follows hard After Thee”, p.65, Destiny Image Publishers

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• What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

  Joseph Chilton Pearce

  Children, Parenting, Want

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• Now I begin to feel that that all that is important comes in quietness and waiting; activity should be only the working out, the digesting and putting forth of what one learned, so that one may become empty again to receive more.

  Rodney Collin

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Learning

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• Developing inner values is much like physical exercise. The more we train our abilities, the stronger they become. The difference is that, unlike the body, when it comes to training the mind, there is no limit to how far we can go.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Buddhist, Exercise

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• In the last analysis, what the Marine Corps becomes is what we make of it during our respective watches. And that watch of each Marine is not confined to the time he spends on active duty. It last as long as he is "proud to bear the title of United States Marine."

  Louis H. Wilson, Jr.

  Time, Military, Marine

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• If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. In other words, begin to act the part, as well as you can, of the person you would rather be, the person you most want to become. Gradually, the old, fearful person will fade away.

  William Glasser

  Change, Attitude, Fear

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• Thousands are the children of poor foreigners, who have permitted them to grow up without school, education, or religion. All the neglect and bad education and evil example of a poor class tend to form others, who, as they mature, swell the ranks of ruffians and criminals. So, at length, a great multitude of ignorant, untrained, passionate, irreligious boys and young men are formed, who become the "dangerous class" of our city.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Education, Children, Growing Up

  "The Dangerous Classes of New York and Twenty Years' Work Among Them".

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• Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Faith, Christian

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• Cultivate Curiosity. If you really want to grow in your lifetime, learn to be as inquisitive as a child. Curious people are never bored, and for them life becomes an unending study of joy.

  Tony Robbins

  Life, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Mar 04, 2015

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• When you understand who and what you are, your radiance projects into the universal radiance and everything around you becomes creative and full of opportunity.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Being Yourself

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• If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.

  David Sobel

  Love, Inspirational, Children

  "Fighting Climate Change Through ‘Nature Connectedness’" by Nancy Shulins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be better.

  Mia Michaels

  Motivational, Levels, Famous Women

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