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• Sunday morning, before we go to hear the Word of God preached...let us not rush into God’s presence careless, reckless, and unprepared, as if it mattered not in what way such work was done. Let us carry with us faith, reverence, and prayer. If these three are our companions, we will hear with profit, and return with praise.

  J. C. Ryle

  Morning, Prayer, Sunday

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.146, Editora Dracaena

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• My Lebanon is a flock of birds fluttering in the early morning as shepherds lead their sheep into the meadow & rising in the evening as farmers return from their fields and vineyards.You have your Lebanon and its people. I have my Lebanon and its people.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Sheep, People

  Khalil Gibran “Selected Short Works of Khalil Gibran”, Library of Alexandria

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• Camden was originally an accident, but I shall never be sorry I was left over in Camden. It has brought me blessed returns.

  Walt Whitman

  Sorry, Blessed, Camden

  Walt Whitman, Walter Magnes Teller, Horace Traubel (1973). “Walt Whitman's Camden conversations”

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• It is not so much what we get out of life as what we put into it that determines how large our returns of happiness shall be. The triumphant life is to be achieved through service. But it must be free and not compulsory. . . . There is a place where the path of duty suddenly becomes the path of beauty.

  Frank C. Lockwood

  Life, Path, Duty

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• ...if we know God our knowledge of... everything will be brought to perfection, and, in so far as is possible, the infinite, divine and ineffable dwelling place (cf. Jn. 14:2) will be ours to enjoy. For this is what our sainted teacher said in his famous philosophical aphorism: 'Then we shall know as we are known' (I Cor. 13:12), when we mingle our god-formed mind and divine reason to what is properly its own and the image returns to the archetype for which it now longs.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Teacher, Philosophical

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• 'Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights' (Jms. 1:17). But there is something more. Inspired by the Father, each procession of the Light spreads itself generously toward us, and, in its power to unify, it stirs us by lifting us up. It returns us back to the oneness and deifying simplicity of the Father who gathers us in. For, as the sacred Word says, 'from Him and to Him are all things' (Rom. 11:36).

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Father, Light

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• Look at that wonderful moonlight. It makes me long for the time when I can return home.

  Wu Cheng'en

  Travel, Home, Long

  Wu Cheng'en (2014). “Journey to the West: The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures”, p.165, Tuttle Publishing

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• From the moment you decide to go somewhere, until the time you return, there are about 47 different points of abuse that are awaiting you.

  Peter Greenberg

  Travel, Abuse, Different

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• The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.

  Maxine Hong Kingston

  Inspiring, Revenge, People

  Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.62, Vintage

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• The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics.

  Pope Francis

  Justice, World, Ethics

  "Pope Francis Is About to Blow Elizabeth Warren Out of the Water" by AJ Vicens, www.motherjones.com. September 15, 2015.

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• On this waterlogged landscape....are scattered palaces and hovels....It is here that the human spirit becomes perfect, and at the same time brutalised, that civilisation produces its marvels and that civilised man returns to the savage.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Cities, Perfect

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• I would like to ask you all to see a ray of hope as well in the eyes and hearts of refugees and of those who have been forcibly displaced. A hope that is expressed in expectations for the future, in the desire for friendship, in the wish to participate in the host society also through learning the language, access to employment and the education of children. I admire the courage of those who hope to be able gradually to resume a normal life, waiting for joy and love to return to brighten their existence. We can and must all nourish this hope!

  Pope Francis

  Children, Eye, Heart

  Pope Francis' address to participants in the Plenary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People at the Clementine Hall, w2.vatican.va. May 24, 2013.

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• You may give a piece of bread to a hungry person, and when the cravings of hunger return some one else must administer to his wants again; to put that person in a position to earn his own subsistence is true charity; in this way you direct his feet in the path of true independence, he is then only dependent on his own exertions and on the blessings of his God.

  Daniel H. Wells

  Blessing, Feet, Giving

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• Show business is dog eat dog. It's worse than dog eat dog. It's dog doesn't return dog's phone calls.

  Woody Allen

  Dog, Phones, Phone Calls

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• I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England.
  After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Dust, Land

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• Bottom line, if people don't say what they believe, those ideas and feelings get lost. If they are lost often enough, those ideas and feelings never return.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Believe, Ideas, People

  David Wojnarowicz (2014). “Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration”, p.87, Open Road Media

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• Leaders should get out of their comfort zone but stay in their strength zone. When their work lies within their natural gifting and strengths, leaders experience the greatest return in productivity and contentment. Life is too short to live in the comfort zone, where growing and accomplishing and achieving your potential takes a back seat. I suggest you refocus if the comfort zone is your leadership priority.

  John C. Maxwell

  Lying, Life Is Too Short, Priorities

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• No love that a man has will only give him pleasure in return- he shall also suffer pain because of it, except for love of Allah.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Pain, Men, Giving

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• By softening our attitudes, practicing mercy and compassion, we transform our lives by transforming other people's experience of us. Send love before you when you enter a room, and people will subconsciously feel it; they'll be prone to show greater kindness in return. That's how love makes things work better in our lives; it realigns the reactions of people and things around us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Attitude, Kindness, Love Is

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Apr 18, 2012

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• Friends and family are vitally important for an individual who is struggling to return to the gospel path. Those around such a person must refrain from judging. They must do all they can to show love.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Struggle, Judging, Important

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• I like this thought: Your mind is a cupboard, and you stock the shelves. Let us make certain that our cupboard shelves, and those of our family members, are stocked with the things which will provide safety to our souls and enable us to return to our Father in Heaven. Such shelves could well be stocked with gospel scholarship, faith, prayer, love, service, obedience, example, and kindness

  Thomas S. Monson

  Kindness, Prayer, Father

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• To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

  Henry Cloud

  Giving Up, Growth, Steps

  Twitter post from Jan 17, 2014

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• I will get stronger. I will return.

  Gabrielle Giffords

  Stronger

  Gabrielle Giffords, Mark Kelly (2012). “Gabby: A Story of Courage and Hope”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

  Simon Sinek

  Generosity, Expecting, Expecting Nothing In Return

  FaceBook post by Simon Sinek from Mar 16, 2015

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• When we have completed all the journeys and adventures through our variety of lives we are supposed to return to the creator with our accumulation of knowledge. It is then absorbed. In this way we are considered cells in the body of God.

  Dolores Cannon

  Adventure, Journey, Cells

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