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• We do not pray for the sake of praying, but for the sake of being heard. We do not pray in order to listen to ourselves praying but in order that God may hear us and answer us. Also, we do not pray in order to receive just any answer: it must be God's answer.

  Thomas Merton

  Order, Answers, May

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.119, Macmillan

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• For the sake of the Gospel, it was worth it… All you have to do is look at any society where there is no Jesus. I’ll give you four: Nazis, no Jesus. Look at their record. Uh, Shintos? They started this thing in Pearl Harbor. Any Jesus among them? None. Communists? None. Islamists? Zero. That’s eighty years of ideologies that have popped up where no Jesus was allowed among those four groups. Just look at the records as far as murder goes among those four groups.

  Phil Robertson

  Jesus, Zero, Years

  "What the Duck?" by Drew Magary, www.gq.com. December 17, 2013.

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• William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.

  William Carey

  Distance, Would Be, Culture

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• A man cannot be a faithful minister, until he preaches Christ for Christs sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Giving Up, Men, People

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1856). “The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne”, p.44

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• I've found that in now having experienced what it's like to make records and just through growing up in general that you should be expressive about what's affecting you instead of trying to sing about a subject just for the sake of other people getting something from it.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Growing Up, People, Trying

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• What binds us together is not common education, common race, common income levels, common politics, common nationality, common accents, common jobs, or anything else of that sort. Christians come together because they have all been loved by Jesus himself. They are a band of natural enemies who love one another for Jesus' sake.

  D. A. Carson

  Christian, Jesus, Jobs

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• So go marry someone, provided you're equally yoked and you actually like being with each other. Go get a job, provided it's not wicked. Go live somewhere in something with somebody or nobody. But put aside the passivity and the quest for complete fulfillment and the perfectionism and the preoccupation with the future, and for God's sake start making some decisions in your life. Don't wait for the liver-shiver. If you are seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, you will be in God's will, so just go out and do something.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Jobs, Decision, Waiting

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• Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

  John Herschel

  Class, Ideas, Dancing

  John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.8, Cambridge University Press

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• Wealth for its own sake is an empty shell. Wealth that includes making other people's lives better will reward you even more than the beautiful mansion you live in.

  Gene Simmons

  Inspirational, Beautiful, People

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• Truth, for its own sake, had never been a virtue with the Roman clergy.

  Charles Kingsley

  Truth, Virtue, Clergy

  Reviewing J. A. Froude's History of England, in 'Macmillan's Magazine' January 1864

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• I miss doing a series, but I don't want to do a series for a series' sake.

  Bobby Sherman

  Missing, Want, Series

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• Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator....."I have two like crimes. Your data and your input on Leclerk would be very helpful"Marie pursed her lips and humor danced in her eyes."It says you would like to have sex with me. I don't think that is correct""Oh, for Christ sake" Eve slammed a fist against the machine.

  Nora Roberts

  Sex, Eye, Thinking

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• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  Aaron Spelling

  Patience, Thinking, Years

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• Real love is love for love's sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Real, Health, Love Is

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• Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin a major effort to secure the best- a crusade for freedom that will engage the faith and fortitude of the next generation. For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Moving, Destiny

  Address to British Parliament, delivered 8 June 1982, Royal Gallery at the Palace of Westminster, London

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• In antiquity men studied for their own sake; nowadays men study for the sake of impressing others.

  Confucius

  Men, Study, Impress

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• SakeThe jewel which brightly shines at nightIs precious, but cannot measure up To the delights of drinking sake,Drowning one's troubles in the cup. Otomo no Tabito

  Reiko Chiba

  Drinking, Jewels, Shining

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• Our 1 million members across the country will be watching closely to see if the video game industry hides behind a First Amendment veil in order to exploit children for the sake of corporate profit.

  Connie Sellecca

  Country, Children, Order

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• If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Integrity, Work, Wise Words

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Can we actually suppose that we are wasting, polluting, and making ugly this beautiful land for the sake of patriotism and the love of God? Perhaps some of us would like to think so, but in fact this destruction is taking place because we have allowed ourselves to believe, and to live, a mated pair of economic lies: that nothing has a value that is not assigned to it by the market; and that the economic life of our communities can safely be handed over to the great corporations.

  Wendell Berry

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

  Wendell Berry, Daniel Kemmis, Courtney White (2006). “The Way of Ignorance: And Other Essays”, p.23, Counterpoint Press

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• . . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

  Aristotle

  Men, He Man, Existence

  Aristotle (2012). “The Metaphysics”, p.4, Roger Bishop Jones

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• . . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.

  Aristotle

  Political, Noble, Action

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.97, Aristotle

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• The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

  Aristotle

  Wealth, Making Money, Nicomachean Ethics

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1732, Princeton University Press

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• Developing personal power includes learning not to negotiate your self-worth for the sake of someone else or sell yourself short for a job.

  Caroline Myss

  Jobs, Self Worth, Personal Power

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Invisible Acts of Power: The Divine Energy of a Giving Heart”, p.117, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?

  Benjamin Franklin

  Endeavor, Communicate, Truth Love

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1809). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.359

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