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• The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Keys, Growing Knowledge, Effectiveness

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• We can't live in a state of perpetual doubt, so we make up the best story possible and we live as if the story were true.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Doubt, Stories, States

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• Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Honor, Pathways

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• Amusement should be used to do us good “like a medicine”: it must never be used as the food of the man...Many have had all holy thoughts and gracious resolutions stamped out by perpetual trifling. Pleasure so called is the murderer of thought. This is the age of excessive amusement: everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Medicine, Age

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• He is a perpetual fountain of good sense.

  John Dryden

  Fountain, Good Sense

  1700 Of Chaucer. Fables Ancient and Modern, preface.

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• Transitions are a part of life, allowing for perpetual renewal. When you experience the end of one chapter, allow yourself to feel the emotions of loss and rebirth. A bud gives way to a new flower, which surrenders to the fruit, which gives rise to a seed, which yields a new sprout. Even as you ride the roller coaster, embrace the centered internal reference of the ever-present witness.

  David Simon

  Flower, Loss, Yield

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• The tempered light of the woods is like a perpetual morning.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Morning, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.234, Cosimo, Inc.

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• While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, and its safe passage in the mountains.

  Wil McCarthy

  Climbing, Ice, Mountain

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• Conscious attention is a designed function of the brain
  which scans the environment for any trouble making changes.
  If you identify yourself with your trouble shooter, then naturally you define yourself as being in a perpetual state of anxiety.

  Alan Watts

  Anxiety, Brain, Attention

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• After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Pain, Lying

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• Art is the perpetual motion of illusion. The highest purpose of art is to inspire. What else can you do? What else can you do for any one but inspire them?

  Bob Dylan

  Art, Inspire, Purpose

  Interview with Jonathan Cott, www.rollingstone.com. January 26, 1978.

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• The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Love Is, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7472, Delphi Classics

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• ...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Ocean, Men, Thinking

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• You who are on the inside, don't condemn my lack of faith too quickly; you who are on the outside, don't be too quick to mock my overcredulity; you who are indifferent, don't be too quick to wax ironic about my perpetual hesitations.

  Bruno Latour

  Ironic, Indifferent, Hesitation

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• When one reaches this state of harmony between things and one's self, one reaches a state of perfect freedom and peace-which makes everything possible and right. Life becomes perpetual revelation.

  Georges Braque

  Self, Perfect, Harmony

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• A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, People, Liberty

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• All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

  George Whitefield

  Struggle, Looks, Sides

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• The American people want a balanced budget. They want Congress to stop this barbaric practice of perpetual deficit spending. It really, if you think about it, is a form of taxation without representation. We fought a war over that issue and we won that war.

  Mike Lee

  War, Thinking, Practice

  "Tea Party Senator Mike Lee: We Need to Change the Way We Spend Money in Washington". "On the Record" with Greta Van Susteren, www.foxnews.com. April 12, 2011.

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• This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

  David Hume

  Possession, Goods, Insatiable

  David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing

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• So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121

  John Green

  Thinking, Past, Alaska

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• They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.

  Hermann Hesse

  Voice, Water, Siddhartha

  Hermann Hesse (2015). “Siddhartha: An Indian Tale”, p.82, Om Books International

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• The perfect fascist state needs to operate in conditions of perpetual warfare. Have you ever noticed how the world has been in constant crisis since World War II?

  Grant Morrison

  War, Perfect, Needs

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• Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Life, Happiness, Beautiful

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• The optimist lives on the peninsula of infinite possibilities; the pessimist is stranded on the island of perpetual indecision.

  William Arthur Ward

  Optimistic, Islands, Infinite

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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• I tramp a perpetual journey.

  Walt Whitman

  Travel, Journey, Tramps

  Walt Whitman, Jonathan Levin (1997). “Walt Whitman”, p.3, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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