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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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• One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

  Confucius

  Men, Law, Long

  Confucius (1998). “论语”

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• To forge an untouchable, invulnerable identity is actually a sign of retreat from this world; of weakness, a sign of fear rather than strength, and betrays a strange misunderstandin g of an abiding, foundational and necessary reality: that untouched, we disappear.

  David Whyte

  Reality, Identity, Weakness

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• The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gun, Keys, Law

  "The great gun control fallacy" by Thomas Sowell, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2012.

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• 'Hail, you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you' (Lk. 1:28)! Thus does the holy Church invoke the most holy Virgin, the Mother of God. But the Lord is also with every pious soul that believes in Him. The Lord's abiding with the Virgin Mary before she conceived the Savior is not a particularity proper to the most pure Virgin alone. The Lord is with every believing soul: 'The Lord is with you.' These words may be said to everyone who keeps the Lord's commandments.

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Mother, Believe

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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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• 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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• Let us hold fast to the iron rod. The Savior urged us to put our hand to the plow without looking back. In that spirit we are being asked to have humility and a deep and abiding faith in the Lord and to move forward-trusting in him, refusing to be diverted from our course, either by the ways of the world or the praise of the world.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Moving, Humility, Hands

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• There is a spiritual law of choosing, believing, abiding, and holding steady in our walk with God, which is essential to the working of the Holy Spirit either in our sanctification or healing.

  Lettie Cowman

  Christian, Spiritual, Believe

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• It is unclear how disarming law-abiding citizens would better protect them from the dangers and threats posed by those who would flout the law. It is at just such times that the constitutional right to self-defense is most precious and must be protected from government overreach.

  Rick Scott

  Government, Self, Law

  "Gov. Rick Scott rejects request to ban concealed weapons outside GOP convention in Tampa", www.foxnews.com. May 2, 2012.

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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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• In the name of all competitors I promise that we will take part in these Olympic Games, respecting and abiding by all the rules which govern them, in the true spirit of sportsmanship, for the glory of sport and the honour of our teams.

  Pierre de Coubertin

  Leadership, Sports, Team

  "The Olympic Idea: Discourses and Essays". Book by Carl Diem, 1970.

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• We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.

  H. G. Wells

  Men, Space, Evil

  H.G. Wells (2015). “Annotated War of the Worlds with English Grammar Exercises: by H.G. Wells (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, p.222, Powell Publications, LLC

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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