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"Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it."
Sunday Adelaja
"Instead of the church in Africa to be a place for eradicating darkness by beaming out light, she has unfortunately become the den of robbers as Jesus put it."
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"Time is much more valuable than money."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"Time is much more valuable than money."
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"Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are better than counterfeit friends."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"Love lost is better than hate found. True criticism is better than false praise. Genuine enemies are better than counterfeit friends."
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"If that church is not adding value to your life, you may want to reconsider how often you go to church."
Sunday Adelaja
"If that church is not adding value to your life, you may want to reconsider how often you go to church."
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"Forget to criticize, but never forget to enjoy criticism."
Debasish Mridha
"Forget to criticize, but never forget to enjoy criticism."
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"Each new day, our minds grow older; the mediocre, bitter or better daily lesson that makes our minds grow older is the matter!"
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"Each new day, our minds grow older; the mediocre, bitter or better daily lesson that makes our minds grow older is the matter!"
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"We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don't even know what that means."
Sunday Adelaja
"We are not even going to throw the challenge of changing a whole generation before the modern day church. This generation of believers don't even know what that means."
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"The most expensive jewels are not found around our necks, but in our hearts."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"The most expensive jewels are not found around our necks, but in our hearts."
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"If you never love, then you never lived."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"If you never love, then you never lived."
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"Don't just remain an accidental being."
Sunday Adelaja
"Don't just remain an accidental being."
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"It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change."
Sunday Adelaja
"It is the people who are afflicted with ungodliness and injustice that would cry unto the Lord for change."
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"A child is not to blame for being immersed in a certain environment and handed down complexes."
Sunday Adelaja
"A child is not to blame for being immersed in a certain environment and handed down complexes."
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"Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited."
Sara Sheridan
"Looking at my life through the lens of history has made me increasingly grateful to standout women who pushed those boundaries to make the changes from which I have benefited."
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"The brevity of life is the grace to walk on your own path."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"The brevity of life is the grace to walk on your own path."
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"On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk."
Sara Sheridan
"On Twitter, people who had read my book followed me and I could see what else they were reading, why they'd liked what I'd written and by the by, more about them than I'd ever elicit from two minutes in a tent at a book festival, stuck behind a signing desk."
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"You are the world. Everything that you see around you is a reflection of your soul and mind."
Debasish Mridha
"You are the world. Everything that you see around you is a reflection of your soul and mind."
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"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."
"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."
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"When we think carefully about the past, we get to know and understand not just what happened in the past but what really went into things that happened in the past."
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
"When we think carefully about the past, we get to know and understand not just what happened in the past but what really went into things that happened in the past."
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"There are often great lessons to be learned at the roots of stress, drama, and heartache. Don't let the magnitude of the circumstance blind you to the value of the lesson."
Steve Maraboli
"There are often great lessons to be learned at the roots of stress, drama, and heartache. Don't let the magnitude of the circumstance blind you to the value of the lesson."
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"To allow your time evaporate each day without a product to show for it is to allow your life evaporate into vanity."
Sunday Adelaja
"To allow your time evaporate each day without a product to show for it is to allow your life evaporate into vanity."
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"The mandate is clear, God's nature must be reflected on the earth."
Sunday Adelaja
"The mandate is clear, God's nature must be reflected on the earth."
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"Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer."
Sunday Adelaja
"Whenever you possess something, but lack the understanding of its value, there are some consequences you suffer."
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"Find some time to seclude yourself from the fuss of life and be face to face with yourself and God."
Sunday Adelaja
"Find some time to seclude yourself from the fuss of life and be face to face with yourself and God."
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"Time slowed as metal shards enveloped her like shattered glass. None pierced her of course, but it seemed as though she might be able to reach out and pluck one from the sky.She settled for stretching out an imagined hand, palm upturned, and letting a shard fall through it untouched like the ghost she had become."
G.S. Jennsen
"Time slowed as metal shards enveloped her like shattered glass. None pierced her of course, but it seemed as though she might be able to reach out and pluck one from the sky.She settled for stretching out an imagined hand, palm upturned, and letting a shard fall through it untouched like the ghost she had become."
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"I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case."
Hilary Mantel
"I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief still in my bag just in case."
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"The fantasy of life;When I was a child, I said 'I can't wait to grow up'. When I was adult, I said 'I miss childhood adventures'."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"The fantasy of life;When I was a child, I said 'I can't wait to grow up'. When I was adult, I said 'I miss childhood adventures'."
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"She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms."
L. M. Montgomery
"She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms."
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"The need is the necessary want."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"The need is the necessary want."
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"This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone."
Joyce Carol Oates
"This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone."
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"In solitude when we are least alone."
Lord Byron
"In solitude when we are least alone."
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"Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical."
H. G. Wells
"Within he felt that faint stirring of derision for the whole business of life which is the salt of the American mentality. Outwardly they are sentimental and enthusiastic and inwardly they are profoundly cynical."
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"Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and y."
Terry Pratchett
"Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and y."
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"You must seek to thyself."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"You must seek to thyself."
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"One thing I've always wondered-why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager? Her face flushed with a mixture of anger and embarrassment. "How far back did you trace me? "Far enough. A pause. "You didn't answer my question. "And you didn't turn into a puff of smoke and disappear. The world is full of disappointments."
Nalini Singh
"One thing I've always wondered-why did you enter that bikini contest when you were a teenager? Her face flushed with a mixture of anger and embarrassment. "How far back did you trace me? "Far enough. A pause. "You didn't answer my question. "And you didn't turn into a puff of smoke and disappear. The world is full of disappointments."
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"If you hold fast to the past, the devil will take advantage of this and use it as a weapon against you."
Sunday Adelaja
"If you hold fast to the past, the devil will take advantage of this and use it as a weapon against you."
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"He often came back 'all thinky' from work."
Sara Sheridan
"He often came back 'all thinky' from work."
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"You are in your own prison."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"You are in your own prison."
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"The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value."
Sunday Adelaja
"The fundamental tragedy about life is that those who possess it often are not aware of its value."
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"She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?"
Khaled Hosseini
"She remembered all too well how time had dragged without him, how she had shuffled about feeling waylaid, out of balance. How she could ever cope with his permanent absence?"
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"Every human being is a reflection of this universe."
Debasish Mridha
"Every human being is a reflection of this universe."
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"It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity."
M.F. Moonzajer
"It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity."
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"All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day."
David Herbert Lawrence
"All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day."
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"Thoughts and feelings produce actions. Sinful thoughts and feelings produce sinful actions."
Sunday Adelaja
"Thoughts and feelings produce actions. Sinful thoughts and feelings produce sinful actions."
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"The time we are living in is a significant time."
Sunday Adelaja
"The time we are living in is a significant time."
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"The only loss is death."
Lailah Gifty Akita
"The only loss is death."
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"It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia."
"It marked the beginning and, of course, an end. At that moment a chapter, no, a whole stage of my closed. Had I known, and had there been a spare second or two, I might have allowed myself a little nostalgia."
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"If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden."
Matshona Dhliwayo
"If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden."
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"I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph."
Gloria Steinem
"I sometimes wonder if I am crisscrossing my father's ghostly paths and we are entering same towns or roadside diners or the black ribbons of highways that gleam in the night rain. As if we were images in a time-lapse photograph."
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"We are all a whole bunch of accidental products."
Sunday Adelaja
"We are all a whole bunch of accidental products."
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"Solitude helps you to convert your time into clarity of purpose."
Sunday Adelaja
"Solitude helps you to convert your time into clarity of purpose."
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