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• We must cease striving and trust God to provide what He thinks is best and in whatever time He chooses to make it available. But this kind of trusting doesn't come naturally. It's a spiritual crisis of the will in which we must choose to exercise faith.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Spiritual, Exercise, Thinking

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• No matter what measures are taken, doctors will sometimes falter, and it isn't reasonable to ask that we achieve perfection. What is reasonable is to ask that we never cease to aim for it.

  Atul Gawande

  Taken, Doctors, Perfection

  Atul Gawande (2010). “Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science”, p.74, Profile Books

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• Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Believe, Promise, False Promises

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.82, Basic Books

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• When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

  John Keats

  Book, Night, Thinking

  'When I have fears that I may cease to be' (written 1818)

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• When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Community, Judgment, Accepting

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• We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue to live. Imagine if there were a boat upon which you could put only four people, and everyone else known and beloved to you would then cease to exist. Who would you put on that boat? It would be painful, but how quickly you would decide: You and you and you and you, get in. The rest of you, goodbye.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Goodbye, Believe, People

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• Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to watch television or go to the movies, nor will he eventually read Book-of-the-Month Club selections, because they are ludicrous and dull. As a young man, then, he will effectually be excluded from all of Madison Avenue and Hollywood and most of publishing, because what moves him or what he creates is quite irrelevant to what is going on: it is too fine. His father has brought him up as a dodo.

  Paul Goodman

  Children, Father, Moving

  Paul Goodman (2011). “Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society”, p.144, New York Review of Books

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• I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it — keep going, keep going come what may. But what is your final goal, you may ask. That goal will become clearer, will emerge slowly but surely, much as the rough draught turns into a sketch, and the sketch into a painting through the serious work done on it, through the elaboration of the original vague idea and through the consolidation of the first fleeting and passing thought.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Woe Is Me, Ideas, Goal

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.webexhibits.org. July 1880.

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• To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at home among things that are not wonderful to us.

  George MacDonald

  Fall, Home, Intellectual

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13217, Delphi Classics

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• Effort ceases. Time flaps on the mast. There we stop; there we stand. Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame

  Virginia Woolf

  Skeletons, Effort, Habit

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition”, p.49, Broadview Press

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• Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

  e. e. cummings

  Simplicity, Failing, Grows

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• Friendship is one of the grand fundamental principles of “Mormonism”; it is designed to revolutionize and civilize the world, and cause wars and contentions to cease and men to become friends and brothers.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Brother, War, Men

  "History of the Church". Book by Joseph Smith, Jr., July 23, 1843.

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• When sight ceases, it is the time for faith to work. The greater the difficulties, the easier it is for faith. As long as human possibilities for success remain, faith does not accomplish things as easily as when all natural prospects fail.

  George Muller

  Sight, Long, Doe

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• Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.

  Democritus

  Men, Fool, Be A Man

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• Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Power, Greatness, Flames

  Misattributed to Tocqueville. "The Tocqueville Fraud" by John Pitney, www.weeklystandard.com. November 12, 1995.

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• When a man is saved by divine grace, he is not wholly cleansed from the corruption of his heart. When we believe in Jesus Christ all our sins are pardoned; yet the power of sin, albeit that it is weakened and kept under by the dominion of the new-born nature which God doth infuse into our souls, doth not cease, but still tarrieth in us, and will do so to our dying day.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Believe, Heart

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 2: Sermons 54-106”, p.377, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• When we find our core certainty within, then we no longer look for certainty outside.
  The unfathomable nature of the ever-changing world ceases
  to be a source of anxiety and instead is a source of joy and adventure.

  Deepak Chopra

  Adventure, Joy, Anxiety

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• The love of a Sage for his fellows likewise finds expression amongst mankind. Were he not told sop, he would not know that he loved his fellows. But whether he knows it or whether he does not know it, whether he hears it or whether he does not hear it, his love for his is without end, and mankind cease not to repose therein.

  Zhuangzi

  Expression, Taoism, Doe

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• Where the glacier meets the sky, the land ceases to be earthly, and the earth becomes one with the heavens; no sorrows live there anymore, and therefore joy is not necessary; beauty alone reigns there, beyond all demands.

  Halldór Laxness

  Land, Sky, Joy

  "World Light" by Halldór Laxness, translated by Magnus Magnusson, published by Vintage Books, (Book Four: The Beauty of the Heavens), 2002.

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• They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.

  Norman Douglas

  Inspirational, Relationship, Neighbor

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• An adopted son shall never take the family, name and the estate of his natural father, the funeral cake follows the family, name and the estate, the funeral offerings of him who gives ,his son in adoption cease, as far as that son is concerned.

  Guru Nanak

  Father, Son, Cake

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• Psychosclerosis: the hardening of the attitude which causes a person to cease dreaming, seeing, thinking, and leading.

  Ashley Montagu

  Dream, Attitude, Thinking

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• The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Fall, Men, Flow

  Smith Wigglesworth (2013). “Ever Increasing Faith”, p.53, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A leader who accepts the outside financing of his movement is like the man who accustoms his body to live on medication. To the extent an organism is administered medication, to the same extent it is condemned to being unable to react on its own. Moreover, when it is deprived of the medication, it dies; it is at the mercy of the pharmacist! Likewise, a political movement is at the mercy of those who finance it. These could cease their financing at any given moment and the movement, unaccustomed to living on its own, dies.

  Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

  Men, Leader, Political

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• Until the day I die, I never want to be separated from my dogi; I never want to cease my training efforts in the dojo.

  Mas Oyama

  Effort, Training, Dojo

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