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• The world of the egotist is, inevitably, a narrow world, and the boundaries of self are limited to the close horizon of personality.... But, within this horizon, there is room for many attributes that are excellent.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Self, Personality, World

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• It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.

  Barack Obama

  Father, Son, Men

  Barack Obama (2007). “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance”, p.220, Broadway Books

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• When one comes to know God and His Son Jesus Christ through the scriptures, the Spirit, and personal revelation, it is impossible to feel anything other than overwhelmed by the attributes so perfectly developed in them and so tentatively and superficially developed in oneself. Even so, we are told to strive to become like them.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Son, Scripture

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• Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends.

  Michael Bassey

  Fake Friends, Dog, Tails

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• In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.

  Thomas Paine

  Book, Belief, Wonderful

  Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

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• Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate this divine attribute.

  Margaret D. Nadauld

  Daughter, Blessing, Divinity

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• One of the attributes of love . . . is to bring harmony and order out of chaos.

  Molly Haskell

  Love Is, Order, Chaos

  Molly Haskell (2016). “From Reverence to Rape: The Treatment of Women in the Movies, Third Edition”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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• Clutter is not an attribute of information, clutter is a failure of design...fix the design rather than stripping all the detail out of the map.

  Edward Tufte

  Design, Details, Maps

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• The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship through love. Whether God is merciful is no longer questioned. He is God; He is my love. Whether God is omnipotent and almighty, limited or unlimited , is no longer questioned.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Spiritual, Real, Love Is

  "The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda".

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• The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

  Francis Beaumont

  Heaven, Headstone, Mercy

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher (1812). “Works: With and Introd. and Explanatory Notes By Henry Weber”, p.479

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• Noble fatherhood gives us a glimpse of the divine attributes of our Father in Heaven.

  James E. Faust

  Father, Giving, Heaven

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• Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration?

  Ann Patchett

  Inspiration, Writing, Magic

  Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.28, A&C Black

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• Some people automatically associate morality and altruism with a religious vision of the world. But I believe it is a mistake to think that morality is an attribute only of religion. We can imagine two types of spirituality: one tied to religion, while the other arises spontaneously in the human heart as an expression of love for our neighbors and a desire to do them good.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Mistake, Believe

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• Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

  David Bosch

  Church, Missions, Activity

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• There are certain things that have universal attributes, like music. Something of greater magnitude is conveyed by them. They connect us with the universal storehouse of life and knowledge.

  Swami Paramananda

  Certain, Magnitude, Universal

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• Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Pride, Receiving, Benefits

  Saint Bernard (of Clairvaux) (1981). “On Loving God: Selection from Sermons”, Greenwood Press

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• ... there is clearly expressed for us? what it is we must attribute either to free will or to the decision and daily assistance of the Lord. We are characterized by whether we respond zealously or lackadaisically to the kindly dispensations of God. This perspective is plainly expressed in the healing of the two blind men. Jesus was passing by, a fact made possible by God's provident grace. And the achievement of their own faith and belief was to cry out 'Lord, son of David, have mercy on us' (Mt. 20:31). The restored sight of their eyes is the gift of divine mercy.

  John Cassian

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

  John Cassian, Colm Luibhéid (1985). “Conferences”, p.98, Paulist Press

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• Mary properly bore the name of Virgin, and possessed to the full all the attributes of purity. She was a virgin in both body and soul, and kept all the powers of her soul and her bodily senses far above any defilement. This she did authoritatively, steadfastly, decisively and altogether inviolably at all times, as a closed gate preserves the treasure within, and a sealed book keeps hidden from sight what is written inside. The Scriptures say of her, 'This is the sealed book' (cf. Rev. 5:1-6:1; Dan. 12:4) and 'this gate shall be shut, and no man shall enter by it' (Ezek. 44:2).

  Gregory Palamas

  Christian, Book, Men

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• I attribute my success to my mental approach to the game. I have always been a serious student of umpiring. I enjoy studying rules, situations, and positioning.

  Jim Evans

  Games, Serious, Students

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• God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Goodness, God Life

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.8, North Atlantic Books

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• One key and defining attribute of God that does not appear in any other world religion or system is the biblical use of the term "Father." Over 70 times in the New Testament alone, God is described as "Father" to His children. No major world religion describes the relationship between its creator and its adherents in terms of a father.

  Ergun Caner

  Children, Father, Biblical

  Ed Hindson, Ergun Caner (2008). “The Popular Encyclopedia of Apologetics: Surveying the Evidence for the Truth of Christianity”, p.254, Harvest House Publishers

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• A company is simply a group of people. And as a leader of people, you have to be a great listener, you have to be a great motivator, you have to be very good at praising and looking for the best in people. People are no different from flowers. If you water flowers, they flourish. If you praise people, they flourish. That's a critical attribute of a leader.

  Richard Branson

  Flower, People, Water

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• When we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Children, Fall, Soul

  Mikhail Lermontov (2012). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• Charity is having patience with someone who has let us down. It is resisting the impulse to become offended easily. It is accepting weaknesses and shortcomings. It is accepting people as they truly are. It is looking beyond physical appearances to attributes that will not dim through time. It is resisting the impulse to categorize others.

  Thomas S. Monson

  People, Weakness, Charity

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• A pivotal spiritual attribute is that of self-mastery-th e strength to place reason over appetite. Self-mastery builds a strong conscience. And your conscience determines your moral responses in difficult, tempting, and trying situations.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Spiritual, Strong, Self

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