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• A life in Christ is a life of restfulness. There may be no ecstasy of feeling, but there should be an abiding peaceful trust. Your hope is not in yourself; it is in Christ. Your weakness is united to His strength, your ignorance to His wisdom, your frailty to His enduring might....Let the mind dwell upon His love, upon the beauty, the perfection of His character.

  Ellen G. White

  Ignorance, Character, Perfection

  Ellen G. White “Steps to Christ—Illustrated”, Digital Inspiration

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• There is magic in the feel of a paddle and the movement of a canoe, a magic compounded of distance, adventure, solitude, and peace. The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten. It is an antidote to insecurity, the open door to waterways of ages past and a way of life with profound and abiding satisfactions. When a man is part of his canoe, he is part of all that canoes have ever known.

  Sigurd F. Olson

  Distance, Adventure, Past

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• Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spring, Abiding Faith, Liberty

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I don’t know why liberals want to disarm the law-abiding population, but I do know that not a single argument proffered stands the light of facts. Armed citizens deter far more crimes than the police, and far more lives are saved by the intended victim being armed than are lost in firearm accidents.

  Paul Craig Roberts

  Light, Law, Police

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• I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the works of man might be a personal regret but remained, in the larger picture I had come to recognize, a matter of abiding indifference. No eye was on the sparrow. No eye was watching me.

  Joan Didion

  Regret, Eye, Men

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• Let me get this straight. A mentally ill madman goes on a shooting spree to assassinate a United States Congressperson... and the lesson learned by liberals is that guns must be taken away from law-abiding citizens? Really? What’s the connection between a mentally ill nutcase and perfectly sane, responsible people? There is none.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Taken, Gun, Law

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• There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, "You shall reap what you sow." This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Biblical, Law

  "Rediscovering Lost Values". Sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church, February 28, 1954.

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• Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

  Lawren Harris

  Beauty, Men, Games

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• The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.

  David Graeber

  Dream, Law, Greed

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• How well that human potential has been fulfilled over the years by people with a deep and abiding connection to Pennsylvania.

  William Schreyer

  Years, People, Pennsylvania

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• It is a truism that as long as man loves but himself and his art he can never attain to the full measure of manhood or reach the sublimest heights of his art. He must seek to love men as brothers and art, not for the sake of art itself, but art as a means toward bringing all men up to that verdant plateau where their souls may be fed in very rejoicing in all that is true, beautiful, and abiding.

  Percy Jewett Burrell

  Love, Inspirational, Beautiful

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• I sometimes forget that life is fragile. The fact that I have more time to dream my dreams and take my ease is no reason at all to disregard the moment I'm in by preferring to be somewhere else. I have to remind myself that wherever I am. . . fast lane or slow lane, in traffic or out of traffic, racing or resting . . . God is there. He is in me, abiding in me, thus making it possible for me to be all there, myself.

  Luci Swindoll

  God, Dream, Somewhere Else

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• The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.

  Albert Ellis

  Law, Healthy, Guilt

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• There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work one can do, ... , and that this work is absorbed by a steady market and thus supports one's own life ... Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Work, Men, Perfect

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• For health and the constant enjoyment of life, give me a keen and ever present sense of humor; it is the next best thing to an abiding faith in providence.

  George Barrell Cheever

  Humor, Abiding Faith, Giving

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• If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.

  Emanuel Steward

  Strength, Sports, Fitness

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• I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks; it's what children bring into school with them.

  Johann Lamont

  Children, Passion, School

  "Johann Lamont: Facing up to Scotland's 'stark choice'". Interview With Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2012.

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• I do think that the abiding mystery of my origins has definitely had a profound effect upon my writing. There is that thing in the back of my mind where I think I don't really know who I am. And it may make it a little easier to shift around in my narrative voice.

  Gillian Welch

  Writing, Thinking, Voice

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 18, 2011.

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• While combat efficiency is a primary function of Shaolin Kung Fu, a more immediate and useful benefit in our law-abiding society is attaining radiant health and vitality.

  Wong Kiew Kit

  Law, Vitality, Benefits

  Wong Kiew Kit (2002). “The Art of Shaolin Kung Fu: The Secrets of Kung Fu for Self-Defense, Health, and Enlightenment”, p.17, Tuttle Publishing

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• To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to tyranny. This is our purpose in the world, nothing more and nothing less.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, America, Alternatives

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• Untested faith was rarely strong. Deep, abiding faith was tempered through fire.

  Robin Lee

  Strong, Fire, Abiding Faith

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• I say the phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business!

  Rand Paul

  Phones, Law, Citizens

  "Rand Paul Vows To 'Take Our Country Back' In Presidential Candidacy Speech". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. April 7, 2015.

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• Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Stars, Independent, Men

  "Fulton J. Sheen's Guide to Contentment". Book by Fulton J. Sheen, p. 120, 1967.

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• An important characteristic of calm abiding meditation is to let go of any goal and simply sit for the sake of sitting. We breathe in and out, and we just watch that. Nothing else.

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Letting Go, Goal, Meditation

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• We are in China in obedience to the command of our Lord; and the purpose of our Mission is to disciple and make Christians of this great nation.. . This is a great spiritual work, and to secure success in it we need the abiding presence of the Spirit, and through the Spirit such a full baptism of power as will perfectly fit each one of us for the special work which God has given him to do.

  Griffith John

  Christian, Spiritual, Baptism

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