"If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all."

Morality, Self, Recognition, Awareness

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"If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all."

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"The basic element that will distinguish those that are for godliness from those that are promoting ungodliness is if such individuals possess the spirit of godliness and not just a form of it."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"One act of a kind deed is better than thousand words of knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Extremes meet and there is no better example than the naughtiness of humility."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"It is better to be kind than to seek much knowledge."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Don't you ever dare judge, for who among us can say that when the devil himself offered us a deal, we refused?"

Kamand Kojouri, Iranian Poet

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"If there is anything the leaders in the society or the nations must take note of is to know the importance of justice."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"The quest to sin always knocks at the door of the heart, but behold! You have the right and will to open your door or never to mind the knocks, no matter how intense it is!"

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Conquer hate with love and evil with goodness."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts."

Gratitude, Faith, Life, Prayer

"While we exert ourselves to grow beyond our humanity, to leave the human behind us, God becomes human; and we must recognize that God wills that we be human, real human beings. While we distinguish between pious and godless, good and evil, noble and base, God loves real people without distinction."

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"Christ is the Mediator, not only between God and man, but between man and man, between man and reality."

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"But the Christian also knows that he not only cannot and dare not be anxious, but that there is no need for him to be so. Neither anxiety now work can secure his daily bread, for bread is the gift of the Father."

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"The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy."

Inspirational, Inspiration, Hope, Optimism, Enemy

"Principles are only tools in the hands of God they will soon be thrown away when they are no longer useful."

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"The person who waits upon moods in impoverished. If the painter only wanted to paint when in the mood for it, he would not get very far. In religion, as in art and science, along with the times of high excitement, there are times of sober work and practice. We must practice our communion with God, otherwise we will not find the right tone, the right word, the right language, when God surprises us with his presence."

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"If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible."

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"May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner."

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"The renewal of the Church will come from a new type of monasticism which only has in common with the old an uncompromising allegiance to the Sermon on the Mount. It is high time people banded together to do this."

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