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• Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death, and serve the church. Christians talk about being born again say that they they were dead but now have come to life. We have become hardened to those words, but they are powerful words that have significant meaning. Yet when those outside the church see no difference in our lives, they begin to question our integrity, out sanity, or even worse, our God. And can you blame them?

  Francis Chan

  Christian, Powerful, Integrity

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• I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.

  Peyton Manning

  Thinking, Two, Perfect

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• The ability to focus is the key separation point between those who move ahead and those who fall behind.

  Orrin Woodward

  Moving, Fall, Keys

  Twitter post from Sep 13, 2016

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• Labor will hurt. Probably a lot. But whether this is negative is another matter... A laboring woman can be in a great deal of pain, yet feel loved and supported and exhilarated by the creative forces flowing through her body and her ability to meet labor's challenges.

  Henci Goer

  Hurt, Pain, Creative

  Henci Goer (1999). “The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth”, p.139, Penguin

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• What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

  Austin Farrer

  Climate, Doe, May

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• Life is a huge privilege and opportunity. God has trusted you with gifts and abilities, which he wants you to use.

  Nicky Gumbel

  Opportunity, Use, Want

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• In truth, our aliveness depends on our ability to sustain wonder:
  to lengthen the moments we are truly uncovered, to be still and quiet
  till all the elements of the earth and all the secrets of the oceans
  stir the aspects of life waiting within us.

  Mark Nepo

  Ocean, Waiting, Secret

  Mark Nepo (2011). “The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have (Gift Edition)”, p.372, Conari Press

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• I believe in the energy of art, and through the use of that energy, the artist's ability to transform his or her life, and by example, the lives of others.

  Audrey Flack

  Art, Believe, Energy

  Audrey Flack (1986). “Art & soul: notes on creating”, Dutton Adult

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• Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.

  Dan Pallotta

  Exercise, Stronger, Truth Is

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• Anyone who is serious about jiu-jitsu should know that the ability to defeat an opponent is nothing more than a metaphor for the ultimate combat, for the most significant victories are the ones we accomplish within ourselves

  Rorion Gracie

  Victory, Jiu Jitsu, Serious

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• Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.

  Graham Moore

  Simple, Men, Thinking

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• By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.

  David Platt

  Christian, Spiritual, Children

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.207, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  Abraham Verghese

  Years, Medicine, Suffering

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• SPEAK OF TROUBLE highlights the abilities of Lowell Sostomi as singer/songwriter and brings together a talented band of musicians with amazing dexterity, loads of energy, and very original arrangements. Im impressed.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Together, Musician, Energy

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• My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

  Marilyn Manson

  Dad, Believe, Taught

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• Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

  Marilyn Manson

  Comedian, Get Away, Blanche

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• Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

  David Gemmell

  People, Stupidity, Logic

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• Self-confidence is nothing more than belief in one’s ability to decide and in one’s decisions.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Self Confidence, Decision, Belief

  L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Handbook for Preclears”, p.264, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it’s the ability to manipulate concepts.

  Leslie Lamport

  Thinking, Language, Manipulate

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• And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

  Zoe Kazan

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• My success is the team's success. It's one of those things to a certain degree that it's effort and ability but also how I benefit from what my teammates do, and then it is up to me to perform.

  Jason Babin

  Team, Effort, Degrees

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• Nicaragua is a World Bank and International Monetary Fund designated "heavily indebted poor country," with little legal ability to control its economic future: Everything is for sale. And once Nicaraguans decide to cash in and sell their houses or farms, they have to look far inland for anything affordable.

  Tony D'Souza

  Country, House, Looks

  "The Boomtown, the Gringo, the Girl, and Her Murder". www.outsideonline.com. May 1, 2007.

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• I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

  Peter Hollingworth

  School, Self Confidence, Average

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• Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.

  Edward Klein

  Skills, Littles, Fantastic

  "Edward Klein on 'The Amateur,' Obama's Faith". Interview with Paul Stanley, www.christianpost.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Do everything to the best of your ability.

  Meredith Vieira

  "Interview with Meredith Vieira – Executive Producer of The Woman Who Wasn’t There". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.indiewire.com. January 8, 2013.

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