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• The gospel does not prompt you to mere reflection; the gospel requires a response. In the process of hearing Jesus, you are compelled to take an honest look at your life, your family, and your church and not just ask, 'What is he saying?' but also ask, 'What shall I do?'

  David Platt

  Jesus, Reflection, Church

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• May God remind us daily-no matter what kind of obstacles we face-that we are loved and empowered by the One who brought the universe into existence with the mere sound of His voice. Nothing is impossible for Him.

  Beth Moore

  Voice, May, Matter

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• A mere collector of supposed facts is as useful as a collector of matchboxes.

  Lucien Febvre

  History, Facts, Collectors

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• When I was a fairly precocious young man I became thoroughly impressed with the futility of the hopes and strivings that chase most men restlessly through life. Moreover, I soon discovered the cruelty of that chase, which in those years was much more carefully covered up by hypocrisy and glittering words than is the case today. By the mere existence of his stomach everyone was condemned to participate in that chase. The stomach might well be satisfied by such participation, but not man insofar as he is a thinking and feeling being.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Thinking, Covered Up

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• I should write for the mere yearning and fondness I have for the beautiful, even if my night's labors should be burnt every morning and no eye shine upon them.

  John Keats

  Beautiful, Morning, Writing

  John Keats, Baron Richard Monckton Milnes Houghton (1848). “Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats”, p.150

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• Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.

  Louis Menand

  Writing, Sound, Timing

  "Bad Comma" by Louis Menand, www.newyorker.com. June 28, 2004.

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• The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage.

  Plato

  Athlete, Savages, Too Much

  Plato, Justin Kaplan (1951). “Dialogues of Plato”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• Mere precedent is a dangerous source of authority.

  Andrew Jackson

  Innovation, Authority, Source

  Andrew Jackson (1835). “Annual messages, veto messages, protest, &c. of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States”, p.236

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• The mere presence of PASSION within you is all you need to fulfill your DREAMS.

  Wayne Dyer

  Dream, Passion, Needs

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Excuses Begone!: How to Change Lifelong, Self-defeating Thinking Habits”, p.170, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pity, Figures, Should

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• We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and when that happens, the Divine cannot be contained solely in a book, church, dogma, liturgy, theological system, or transcendent spirituality. The earth is no longer a mere backdrop until we get to heaven, something secondary and expendable. Mater becomes inspirited; it breathes divinity. Earth comes alive and sacred. And we find ourselves alive in the midst of her and forever altered.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Book, Divine Feminine, Forever

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• The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too committed to a vision to allow mere facts to interfere with their beliefs, and the sense of superiority that those beliefs give them.

  Thomas Sowell

  Real, Gun, Mass Shootings

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• The process of change does not occur on superficial levels, through mere 'positive thinking.' It involves exploring, discovering, and changing our deepest, most basic attitudes toward life.

  Shakti Gawain

  Attitude, Positive Thinking, Doe

  Shakti Gawain (2016). “Creative Visualization - 40th Anniversary Edition: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life”, p.19, New World Library

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• For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory of descent becomes a mere compliment.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Apes, Innocence

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• Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself.

  Jean Cocteau

  Half, Assistants, Unconscious

  "Cock and harlequin: Notes concerning music". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1921.

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• Feelings come and feelings go. There is no need to fear them and no need to crave them. Be open to your feelings and experience them while they are here. Then be open to the feelings that will come next. Your feelings are a part of your experience. Yet no mere feeling, however intense it may seem, is your permanent reality.

  Ralph Marston

  Reality, Feelings, Needs

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• The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security in order to do what they themselves think worth doing. They do the useless, brave, noble, divinely foolish, and the very wisest things that are done by Man. And what they prove to themselves and to others is that Man is no mere creature of his habits, no automaton in his routine, but that in the dust of which he is made there is also fire, lighted now and then by great winds from the sky.

  Walter Lippmann

  Giving Up, Men, Thinking

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• The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

  Tim Winton

  Spiritual, Nature, Sea

  Tim Winton (2012). “Land's Edge: A Coastal Memoir”, p.18, Pan Macmillan

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• Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down to mere nonentity. But let me not hear any small witticism to the further effect that its story is a tale told by a vulgarian, full of slang and blanky, signifying-nothing.

  Joseph Furphy

  Art, Player, Stories

  Joseph Furphy, Frances Devlin-Glass (1991). “The annotated Such is life: such is life : being certain extracts from the diary of Tom Collins”

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• Parents are flawed human beings who are given a role that more approximates that of God than of mere mortals.

  Dennis Prager

  Parent, Roles, Given

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• The function of ritual, as I understand it, is to give form to human life, not in the way of a mere surface arrangement, but in depth.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving, Depth, Way

  "Myths to Live By".

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• "Consider the matter dispassionately, Mr. Foster, and you will see that no offence is so heinous as unorthodoxy of behaviour. Murder kills only the individual- and after all, wha is an individual? ". . . ." We can make a new one with the greatest of ease- as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."

  Aldous Huxley

  Behaviour, Ease, Matter

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• Tea ceremony is a way of worshipping the beautiful and the simple. All one's efforts are concentrated on trying to achieve perfection through the imperfect gestures of daily life. Its beauty consists in the respect with which it is performed. If a mere cup of tea can bring us closer to God, we should watch out for all the other dozens of opportunities that each ordinary day offers us.

  Paulo Coelho

  Beautiful, Opportunity, Simple

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• Let's commit ourselves to being true disciples of Jesus Christ. Not mere fair-weather followers, but disciples.

  Greg Laurie

  Jesus, Weather, Followers

  Greg Laurie (2009). “Beyond: A Devotional”, p.256, Multnomah

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• The teacher who allows his scholars the freedom of the city of books is at liberty to be their guide, philosopher and friend; and is no longer the mere instrument of forcible intellectual feeding.

  Charlotte Mason

  Teacher, Book, Cities

  Charlotte Mason (2013). “Towards a Psychology of Education”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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