"I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?"

Life, Time, Thought, Benefits

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"I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?"

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"I focus on spiritual wealth now, and I'm busier, more enthusiastic, and more joyful than I have ever been."

Wealth, Focus, Now, Spiritual

"I thought, I'm only going to be on this planet once, and only for a short time. What can I do with my life that will lead to permanent benefits?"

Life, Time, Thought, Benefits

"A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then."

Army, Pretty, Today

"I wouldn't call it radical; I would call it enthusiasm for progress."

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"I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago."

Science, People, Now, Pity

"If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more."

Opportunity, Will

"Work at being a humble person."

Work, Being

"If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search."

Humility, May

"The question is not is there a God, but is there anything else except God? God is everyone and each of us is a little bit."

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"Anybody who had come up with a new concept would have been under suspicion for being out of step with the tradition or out of step with the teachings of the church."

Church, Being, Suspicion, Tradition

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Some parts of life are lived in the shadows where the only sunlight you feel is the light you pray for."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Hate is hostility."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Money isn't the solution to your problems. It only lets you carry your unhappiness around in style."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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