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• The more we grow to know God, the more we realize how little we know of Him.

  Steven J Lawson

  Littles, Knowing God, Grows

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• The movement of the waves, of winds, of the earth is ever in the same lasting harmony. We do not stand on the beach and inquire of the ocean what was its movement of the past and what will be its movement of the future. We realize that the movement peculiar to its nature is eternal to its nature. The dancer of the future will be one whose body and soul have grown so harmoniously together that the natural language of that soul will have become the movement of the body.

  Isadora Duncan

  Beach, Ocean, Past

  "The Art of the Dance" edited by Sheldon Cheney, (p. 54), 1928.

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• The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Father, Moments, Everlasting

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• Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Spiritual, Greatness

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2014). “The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones”, p.94, SPCK

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• The whole man is involved, the mind, the heart and the will, and a common cause of spiritual depression is the failure to realize that the Christian life is a whole life, a balanced life.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Spiritual, Heart

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2014). “The Christ-Centred Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones”, p.93, SPCK

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• If you wait for people to come to you, you'll only get small problems. You must go and find them. The big problems are where people don't realize they have one in the first place.

  W. Edwards Deming

  Small Problems, People, Waiting

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• The way to truth lies through the destruction of the false. To destroy the false, you must question your most inveterate beliefs. Of these the idea that you are the body is the worst. With the body comes the world, with the world - God, who is supposed to have created the world and thus it starts - fears, religions, prayers, sacrifices, all sorts of systems - all to protect and support the child-man, frightened out of his wits by monsters of his own making. Realize that what you are cannot be born nor die and with the fear gone, all suffering ends.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Prayer, Children, Lying

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• God realizes His people need protection from the pains and heartaches of the world.

  Max Anders

  Pain, People, Heartache

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• Henri Nouwen says, "When we come to realize that ... only God saves, then we are free to serve, then we can live truly humble lives." Nouwen changed his approach from "selling pearls," or peddling the good news, to "hunting for the treasure" already present in those he was called to love - a shift from dispensing religion to dispensing grace. It makes all the difference in the world whether I view my neighbor as a potential convert or as someone whom God already loves.

  Philip Yancey

  Humble, Hunting, Views

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• I sometimes think that the very essence of the whole Christian position and the secret of a successful spiritual life is just to realize two things... I must have complete, absolute confidence in God and no confidence in myself."

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Spiritual, Successful

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1995). “Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings”, Nelson Bibles

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• The way of God's grace becomes indispensable when we realize that the way of God's law is inflexible.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Law, Grace, Way

  Twitter post from Feb 15, 2015

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• I've always felt, it's a gift of God, whatever I have, whatever has made me do what I do for as long as I do it. But I know I can lose that in one second. A stroke. Whatever. One second. Blow the whole thing. So, when you do think about that, you realize how fortunate and how blessed you've been, and that's really how I feel.

  Vin Scully

  Blessed, Blow, Thinking

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• You have to realize that the game is played by people and not by robots. You have to try to get across in the broadcast the difference in personalities of these players, and that's part of the fun, of course, being in a position where you can pass along that knowledge because you represent the fan.

  Martin Tyler

  Fun, Player, Games

  "Q&A with world-renowned soccer commentator Martin Tyler". Interview with Grant Wahl, www.si.com. June 8, 2010.

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• We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

  Frank Chodorov

  Men, Effort, Political

  Frank Chodorov, Charles H. Hamilton (1980). “Fugitive essays: selected writings of Frank Chodorov”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The philosophy underlying the system of progressive taxation is that the income and wealth of the well-to-do classes can be freely tapped. What the advocates of these tax rates fail to realize is that the greater part of the incomes taxed away would not have been consumed but saved and invested.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Progressive Taxation, Class

  Ludwig von Mises (2015). “Middle of the Road Policy Leads to Socialism”, p.32, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on another burdens which it is not asked to share, and impels the State into vast schemes of extravagance, under the belief that the whole costs will be thrown upon others.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Class, Creating, Democracy

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• It's obvious that a lot of Tea Party members tend to be elderly. You've seen that famous sign, 'Tell the government to keep its hands off my Medicare.' And I think as long as the government does keep its hands off their Medicare, they're fine with talking about low taxes. But once they start to realize that the Republicans really do want to not just cut Medicare, but essentially abolish it, you know, I just think those people are not going to be part of the Tea Party. They're going to be over with Occupy Wall Street.

  Bruce Bartlett

  Wall, Party, Cutting

  "Economic Malpractice and the Millennials". Interview with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Those who understood, in fact, say: 'I mustn't do this, I mustn't do that,' so as not to commit some stupidity or other! Splendid! But at a certain point we realize that all life is stupidity; so tell me yourself what it means never to have done anything foolish. At the very least it means you have never lived.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Mean, Stupidity, Done

  Luigi Pirandello (1987). “The late Mattia Pascal”, Eridanos Library

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• The greatest opportunities for creative transformation are often lodged in our discontents. Art is an alchemical process that feeds on emotional energy. When we realize that a perfect equilibrium in our lives might not be the best basis for making art, then we can begin to re-vision our stress points. So rather than try to rid your life of tension, consider doing something more creative with it.

  Shaun McNiff

  Art, Stress, Opportunity

  Shaun McNiff (1998). “Trust the Process”, p.148, Shambhala Publications

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• We may think it humility not to realize that the Lord is bestowing gifts upon us. Let us understand very, very clearly, how this matter stands. God gives us these gifts for no merit of ours. Let us be grateful to His Majesty for them, for, unless we recognize that we are receiving them, we shall not be aroused to love Him. And it is a most certain thing that, if we remember all the time that we are poor, the richer we find ourselves, the greater will be the profit that comes to us and the more genuine our humility.

  Teresa of Avila

  Grateful, Humility, Thinking

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• You have to realize the truth of biologist Julian Huxley's idea that 'Life is just one damn relatedness after another' "So you must have the models, and you must see the relatedness and the effects from the relatedness.

  Charlie Munger

  Ideas, Life Is, Huxley

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• I think we have lost our way when people like the [board of] governors and the CEO of the NYSE fail to realize they have a duty to the rest of us to act as exemplars... You do not want your first-grade school teacher to be fornicating on the floor or drinking booze in the classroom; similarly you do not want your stock exchange to be setting the wrong moral example.

  Charlie Munger

  Teacher, Drinking, School

  Charlie Munger's comments on economic matters at the 2005 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, www.tilsonfunds.com. April 30, 2005.

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• I realize it's impossible to have any sympathy, I mean, true sympathy, for people that are famous.

  Bill Murray

  Mean, People, Impossible

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• To realize lasting peace and sustainable development in human society, members of the international community have to cooperate with one another fully and make concerted efforts.

  Wu Bangguo

  Effort, Community, Development

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• Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

  John C. Bogle

  Character, Despair, Depth

  John C. Bogle (2015). “Bogle On Mutual Funds: New Perspectives For The Intelligent Investor”, p.242, John Wiley & Sons

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