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• God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!

  Vance Havner

  Doe, Would Be, Sometimes

  Vance Havner (2014). “Day by Day”, p.9, Solid Christian Books

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• The most important factor in abandoning our thoughts is to look in the Bible and see what God says about a matter. Then we must determine to act on His Word rather than on our own thoughts or those the devil may whisper into our minds.

  K.P. Yohannan

  Mind, Important, Devil

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• It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Influence, Relation, Circumstances

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• It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires, and who can doubt that the interest we have in admitting or denying the reality of the Judgement to come determines the faith of most men in accordance with their hopes and fears.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Believe, Reality, Men

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• The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success.

  R. Kelly

  Struggle, Depth, Height

  Twitter post from Nov 07, 2009

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• It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Friends, Evil, Choices

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• A respect for the rights of other peoples to determine their forms of government and their economy will not weaken our democracy. It will inevitably strengthen it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Government, Rights, Democracy

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• dying nowadays is more gruesome in many ways, namely, more lonely, mechanical, and dehumanized; at times it is even difficult to determine technically when the time of death has occurred.

  Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

  Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  Death, Lonely, Dying

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• A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.

  Bill Vaughan

  Imagination, Inspire, Behaviour

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• We should not be too hasty in bestowing either our praise or censure on mankind, since we shall often find such a mixture of good and evil in the same character, that it may require a very accurate judgment and a very elaborate inquiry to determine on which side the balance turns.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Evil, Balance

  Henry Fielding, Thomas Roscoe (1853). “The Works of Henry Fielding, Complete in One Volume”, p.540

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• Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Law, Being Me, Metaphysics

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James MARSH (D.D.) (1829). “Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh”, p.397

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• When we do not know the truth of a thing, it is good that there should exist a common error which determines the mind of man, as, for example, the moon, to which is attributed the change of seasons, the progress of diseases, etc. For the chief malady of man is a restless curiosity about things which he cannot understand; and it is not so bad for him to be in error as to be curious to no purpose.

  Blaise Pascal

  Truth, Men, Moon

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pascal's Pensees”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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• The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Hands, Oppression

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.47

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• being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

  Iris Murdoch

  Character, Men, Doe

  Iris Murdoch (2001). “A Fairly Honourable Defeat”, p.22, Penguin

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• How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

  Etty Hillesum

  Destiny, Men, Shapes

  Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.258, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• The formidable power of geography determines the character and performance of a people.

  Ethel Wilson

  Character, People, Geography

  Ethel Wilson (1990). “Love and Salt Water”, New Canadian Library

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• Personally, I think government is a tool, like a hammer. You can use a hammer to build or you can use a hammer to destroy; there is nothing intrinsically good or evil about the hammer itself. It is the purposes to which it is put and the skill with which it is used that determine whether the hammer's work is good or bad.

  Molly Ivins

  Thinking, Government, Skills

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.22, Vintage

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• I believe that the means you use will determine the end you receive.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Believe, Mean, Use

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.155, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The measure of our rationality determines the degree of vividness with which we appreciate the needs of other life, the extent to which we become conscious of the real character of our own motives and impulses, the ability to harmonize conflicting impulses in our own life and in society, and the capacity to choose adequate means for approved ends.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Real, Character, Mean

  Reinhold Niebuhr (2015). “Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: (Library of America #263)”, p.204, Library of America

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• Our internal state determines our experience of our lives; our experiences do not determine our internal state.

  Marianne Williamson

  Experience, States, Internals

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• Power is a central issue in social and personal transformation. Our sources and uses of power set our boundaries, give form to our relationships, even determine how much we let ourselves liberate and express aspects of the self. More than party registration, more than our purported philosophy or ideology, personal power defines our politics.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Philosophy, Party, Power

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• What's the Christian-bashing all about? Simple- a struggle for the soul of America is under way, a struggle to determine whose views, values, beliefs and standards will serve as the basis of law.

  Pat Buchanan

  Christian, Struggle, Simple

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• Wine is a splendid thing in and of itself, but it is nonetheless proper to examine the high nutritional and hygienic values of wine from a scientific point of view. We are convinced that scientists will thus perform a service to mankind, since at the same time they will help determine the measure beyond which its use is a misuse for all creation.

  Pope Pius XII

  Food, Wine, Views

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• People will have a problem with whatever you do. At the end of the day, nobody can determine what you need to do in order to be successful and why would you listen to someone who is not successful tell you what you need to do?

  Kanye West

  Successful, Order, People

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• Revival is the return of God's manifest presence to His people for the purpose of them renewing their relationship with Him, with each other and for the good of the broader society. It is necessary because much of what God determines to do, or not do, in the world is determined by His relationship to His people.

  Tony Evans

  People, Purpose, World

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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