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• Everything is possible for the believer. I have watched impure souls mad for physical love but turning what they know of such love into a reason for penance and transferring that same capacity for love to the Lord. I have watched them master fear so as to drive themselves unsparingly toward the love of God. That is why, when talking of that chaste harlot, the Lord does not say, 'because she feared,' but rather, 'because she loved much' she was able to drive out love with love (Lk. 7:47).

  John Climacus

  Christian, Talking, Mad

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.129, Paulist Press

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• There is enough information capacity in a single human cell to store the Encyclopedia Britannica, all 30 volumes of it, three or four times over.

  Richard Dawkins

  Cells, Encyclopedia Britannica, Three

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.118, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Ideas, Differences

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves.

  Ronald Reagan

  Father, Believe, Thinking

  Ronald Reagan (2004). “Speaking My Mind: Selected Speeches”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Long, Giving

  Max Lucado (2007). “Book of Ephesians: Where You Belong”, p.59, Harper Collins

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• Time doesn't heal wounds; it only watches them take different
  shapes and forms until they look so different that where they came
  from is often obscured. The real capacity to heal inner wounds
  comes from heaven, not earth. Only the power of Jesus can go to
  the deep places and bring healing.

  Robert Whitlow

  Jesus, Real, Healing

  Robert Whitlow (2017). “A Robert Whitlow Collection: The Trial, The Sacrifice, The List”, p.417, Thomas Nelson

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• In any given moment, a man's growth is optimized if he leans just beyond his edge, his capacity, his fear. He should not be too lazy, happily stagnating in the zone of security and comfort. Nor should he push far beyond his edge, stressing himself unnecessarily, unable to metabolize his experience. He should lean just slightly beyond the edge of fear and discomfort. Constantly. In everything he does.

  David Deida

  Stress, Men, Lazy

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• You have the capacity to change the plotline of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember.

  David Simon

  Acting, Scripts, Remember

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• Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

  Michael Novak

  Self, Deception, Limits

  Michael Novak (2011). “Ascent of the Mountain, Flight of the Dove: An Invitation to Religious Studies (Third Revised Edition)”, p.50, Transaction Publishers

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• The Lord made it very clear at the start of this last dispensation that we were to take the gospel to all the world. ... Whatever our age, capacity, Church calling, or location, we are as one called to the work to help Him in His harvest of souls.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Soul, Age, Church

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• Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and misery, not because of some great psychological or emotional capacity, but because God's heart has become one with ours.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Pain, War

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.36, HarperCollins

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• It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation.

  Daniel Dennett

  Giving, Soul, Robots

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• FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'

  Erich Fromm

  World, Want, Fortitude

  Erich Fromm (2011). “The Revolution of Hope”, p.27, Lantern Books

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• The medievalist has the capacity, and the desire, to harmonize. He believes the planets sing in harmony; why cannot technology also sing?

  Douglas Wilson

  Believe, Technology, Desire

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• One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

  Alain de Botton

  Good Relationship

  Twitter post from Mar 16, 2014

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• Imagine a world in which medicine was oriented toward healing rather than disease, where doctors believed in the natural healing capacity of human beings and emphasized prevention above treatment. In such a world, doctors and patients would be partners working toward the same ends.

  Andrew Weil

  Healing, Doctors, Medicine

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• Although I have lived through much darkness, I have seen enough evidence to be unshakably convinced that no difficulty, no fear is so great that it can completely suffocate the hope that springs eternal in the hearts of the young... Do not let that hope die! Stake your lives on it! We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures; we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of his Son.

  Pope John Paul II

  Father, Spring, Real

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• Will we rise to the challenge and prove our capacity for genuine altruism by ending our ruthless exploitation of the species in our power, not because we are forced to do so by rebels or terrorists, but because we recognize that our position is morally indefensible?

  Peter Singer

  Challenges, Rebel, Genuine

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• Wherever people gather for selfless ends, there is a vast augmentation of their individual capacities. Something wonderful, something momentous happens. An irresistible force begins to move, which, though we may not see it, is going to change our world. In this lies the power and the meaning of spiritual companionship.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Spiritual, Lying, Moving

  Eknath Easwaran (1991). “Meditation: A Simple Eight-point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals Into Daily Life”, p.199, Nilgiri Press

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• What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

  Bill Parcells

  Past, Hands, People

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• Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

  Dave Grohl

  Going Away, Arena

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• A learning organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future.

  Peter Senge

  Organization, Expanding, Learning Organization

  "The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization". Book by Peter Senge (p. 14), en.wikiquote.org. 1990.

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• You must show respect and compassion towards the other musicians, and at the same time try to guide things along. I think this is most important. Obviously, you need the capacity and the skills, but technical skill alone is not enough.

  Vinnie Colaiuta

  Thinking, Compassion, Skills

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• What is possible for you in Christ Jesus depends on your capacity to believe.

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Believe, Christ

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• When the playful me shows up, I am ready to be a serious learner … a culture of playfulness is closely related to the capacity to learn.

  Rosemary Sutcliff

  Culture, Serious, Shows

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