Mark Quotes - Page 31

• Either you make a mark on the world,
  or the world will make a mark on you.

  Paulo Coelho

  World

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• A mark of blessing is what you're giving, not what you're keeping.

  John Wimber

  Blessing, Giving

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• If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.

  James Dean

  Goal, Worthwhile, Not Afraid

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• The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Arrows, Body

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.400, Harvard University Press

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• The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Two, Mind, Able

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• Wherever there is possession of marks, there is fraud ; wherever there is no-possession of no-marks, there is no fraud. Hence the Tathagata is to be seen from no-marks as marks.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fraud, Possession

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• One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Maturity, Becoming, Ability

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.159, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The surest mark of true conversion is humility.

  J. C. Ryle

  Humility, Conversion

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew”, p.190, Editora Dracaena

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• One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Giving Up, Men, Type

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.

  Will Durant

  Civilization, Luxury, Liberty

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• The certain mark by which a Christian community can be recognized is the preaching of the gospel in its purity.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Community, Purity

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• The absence of consistent biblical worldview thinking is a key mark of spiritual immaturity.

  Albert Mohler

  Spiritual, Biblical, Thinking

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• Remember today, for it is the beginning of always. Today marks the start of a brave new future filled with all your dreams can hold. Think truly to the future and make those dreams come true.

  Albert Einstein

  Dream, Thinking, Brave

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• The Crucifixion, Atonement, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ mark the beginning of a Christian Life, not the end of it.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Christian, Jesus, Resurrection

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• Perfume is a mark of female identity and the final touch of her style

  Christian Dior

  Style, Identity, Female

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• The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Government, Important, Bankers

  "The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien". Book by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Humphrey Carpenter, 1981.

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• Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford, Connecticut. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.

  Annie Dillard

  Summer, New York, Writing

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.82, Canongate Books

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• Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in three generations you will be an extinct race; because the backbone of the nation will be broken, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built will be undermined, and the result will be annihilation all round.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Race, Civilization

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.36, Vivekananda Kendra

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• If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is
  suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A
  willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

  John Stott

  Suffering, Church, Firsts

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• Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

  C. S. Lewis

  Childhood, Adults, Approval

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Heart, Blue, Broken

  Marlene Dietrich (1962). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC.”

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• Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.

  Larry Merchant

  Wisdom, Eye, Guy

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• Every day, with every word, we get to decide: Do we mar the world, or mark the world?

  Ann Voskamp

  Mars, World

  Twitter post from Jun 7, 2017

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• We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes

  Charles Spurgeon

  Providence, Ifs

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (2008). “Devotional Classics of C. H. Spurgeon”, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny Penman have teamed up to give us scientifically grounded techniques we can apply in the midst of our everyday challenges and catastrophes.

  Daniel Goleman

  Giving, Challenges, Everyday

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