Abiding Quotes

• The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns, we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise, they will win and the decent people will lose.

  James Earl Jones

  Gun, Winning, Law

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other book.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Book, Men, Religion

  "History of the Church", 4:461, November 28, 1841.

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• Happiness is the sense that one matters. Happiness is an abiding enthusiasm. Happiness is single-mindedness. Happiness is whole-heartedness. Happiness is a by-product. Happiness is faith.

  Sam Shoemaker

  Happiness, Enthusiasm, Matter

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• Her heart is full of joy with love, for in the Lord her mind is stilled. She has renounced every selfish attachment and draws abiding joy and strength from the One within. She lives not for herself, but lives to serve the Lord of Love in all, and swims across the sea of life breasting its rough waves joyfully.

  Teresa of Avila

  Spiritual, Selfish, Heart

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• The danger is that we may fail to perceive life's greatest meaning, fall short of its highest good, miss its deepest and most abiding happiness, be unable to render the most needed service, be unconscious of life ablaze with the light of the Presence of God - and be content to have it so - that is the danger. That some day we may wake up and find that always we have been busy with the husks and trappings of life - and have really missed life itself.

  Phillips Brooks

  Fall, Light, Missing

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• Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Abiding fully means praying much.

  Andy Murray

  Prayer, Mean, Christian Inspirational

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• For most people to be happy, there has to be a person, place, or thing involved in their happiness. In true happiness, there are no things involved. It's a natural state. You will abide in that state forever.

  Robert Adams

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  "The Ultimate Happiness". Inner Directions Journal Interview, ru.scribd.com. 1995.

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• Faith is the capacity of the soul to perceive the abiding, the invisible in the visible.

  Leo Baeck

  Soul, Invisible, Capacity

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• Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Humanity, Paper, Virtue

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• Abide with me from morn to eve, / For without Thee I cannot live: / Abide with me when night is nigh. / For without Thee I dare not die.

  John Keble

  Night, Thee, Dare

  John Keble (1866). “The Christian Year ... [By John Keble.] Hundredth Edition”, p.5, Ccel

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• All these things He must be in me, abiding, living, speaking in me; that I may be the righteousness of God in Him (2 Cor. v. 21); not in love, nor in gifts and graces which follow; but in Him.

  Martin Luther

  Grace, May, Righteousness

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• No conventional therapy can release us from a deep and abiding psychic pain. Through prayer we find what we cannot find elsewhere: a peace that is not of this world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Pain, Psychics

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.73, Random House

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• The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.

  Harper Lee

  Honesty, Powerful, Integrity

  To Kill a Mockingbird ch. 11 (1960)

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• I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my Horus is high upon the standard ... forever.

  Hatshepsut

  Sunshine, Egypt, Forever

  Inscriptions at Djeser-Djeseru, as quoted in "Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest" by James Henry Breasted, 1906.

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• O visionary world, condition strange, Where naught abiding is but only change.

  James Russell Lowell

  Change, Visionaries, World

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.757, Delphi Classics

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• The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a mothering power. It was good for the skin to touch the earth and the old people liked to remove their moccasins and walk with bare feet on the sacred earth. Their tipis were built upon the earth and their altars were made of earth. The birds that flew into the air came to rest upon the earth and it was the final abiding place of all things that lived and grew. The soil was soothing, strengthening, cleansing and healing.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Healing, Air, Feet

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.192, U of Nebraska Press

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• A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

  Diogenes

  Two, Soul, Body

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laertius, p. 188, 1853.

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• Blessed is the pilgrim, who in every place, and at all times of this his banishment in the body, calling upon the holy name of Jesus, calleth to mind his native heavenly land, where his blessed Master, the King of saints and angels, waiteth to receive him. Blessed is the pilgrim who seeketh not an abiding place unto himself in this world; but longeth to be dissolved, and be with Christ in heaven.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Jesus, Kings, Blessed

  "Vera Sapientia or True Wisdom". Book by Thomas a Kempis,

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• Law-abiding citizens value privacy. Terrorists require invisibility. The two are not the same, and they should not be confused.

  Richard Perle

  Confused, Invisibility Cloak, Law

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• Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

  Thomas Paine

  Gun, Order, Law

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.4, Yale University Press

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• Amidst the confusion of the times, the conflicts of conscience, and the turmoil of daily living, an abiding faith becomes an anchor to our lives.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Abiding Faith, Anchors, Confusion

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• As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Law, Democracy, Citizens

  Speech in Chicago, Illinois, September 29, 1952.

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• All the research shows that being married, with all its ups and downs, is by far the most effective way of making young men law-abiding and giving them a sense of purpose and self-worth.

  Ferdinand Mount

  Men, Self Worth, Law

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• If were going to change the laws, lets change them in ways which makes it easier to catch criminals, and yet at the same time protect the Second Amendment rights of our law-abiding citizens.

  John Dingell

  Rights, Law, Second Amendment

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