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• The test of love is that it gives even when there is no expectation of a return.

  John Ortberg

  Love Is, Giving, Expectations

  John Ortberg (2001). “Love Beyond Reason: Moving God's Love from Your Head to Your Heart”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• God's command to have dominion over every living thing is a call to service, a test of responsibility, a rule of love, a cooperation with nature, whereas Satan's use of force for the sake of getting gain renders the earth uninhabitable. Brigham Young's views on the environment direct attention to man's responsibility to beautify the earth, to eradicate the influences of harmful substances, and to use restraint, that the earth may return to its paradisiacal glory.

  Hugh Nibley

  Responsibility, Men, Views

  Hugh Nibley, Don E. Norton, Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (1994). “Brother Brigham challenges the Saints”, Deseret Book Co

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• Any faith that does not command the one who holds it is not a real belief; it is a pseudo belief only. And it might shock some of us profoundly if we were brought suddenly face to face with our beliefs and forced to test them in the fires of practical living.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Real, Fire, Doe

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• The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.

  Andrew Murray

  Prayer, Humility, Trying

  Andrew Murray (2016). “Humility: The Beauty of Holiness”, p.25, Gideon House Books

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• The worst pain ... isn't the pain you feel at the time, it's the pain you feel later on when there's nothing you can do about it, They say that time heals all wounds, But we never live long enough to test that theory.

  Jose Saramago

  Pain, Long, Time Heals

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• ..I find it incredible impossible not to cry when I hear Stevie Nicks's "Landslide," especially the lyric: "I've been afraid of changing, because I've built my life around you." I think a good test to see if a human is actually a robot/android/cylon is to have them listen to this song lyric and study their reaction. If they don't cry, you should stab them through the heart. You will find a fusebox.

  Mindy Kaling

  Song, Heart, Thinking

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• My studies have shown that the process of falling into mature love happens in four steps. When you meet a woman, you subconsciously look for cues that she's the kind os person you should be with. That's assumption. If she passes the assumption test, you begin to get to know her to find out if she's appropriate for you. If she is, you're attracted. If, as you get to know her, the attraction is reinforced with joy or pain or both, you'll fall into infatuation. And if you manage to make a connection and attach to each other during infatuation, you'll move into mature, unconditional love.

  Jennifer Crusie

  Pain, Moving, Fall

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• I know I belong in Dauntless because everything I did in that aptitude test told me so. I'm loyal to my faction for that reason -- because there's nowhere else I could possibly be. But her? And you?" She shakes her head. "I have no idea who you're loyal to. And I'm not going to pretend like everything's okay.

  Veronica Roth

  Ideas, Aptitude Test, Loyal

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• I think that you are the liar!" I say, my voice quaking. "You tell me you love me, you trust me, you think I'm more perceptive than the average person. And the first second that belief in my perceptiveness, that trust, that love is put to the test, it falls apart." I am crying now, but I am not ashamed of the tears shining on my cheeks or the thickness of my voice. "So you must have lied when you told me all those things... you must have, because I can't believe your love is really that feeble.

  Veronica Roth

  Liars, Believe, Fall

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• Something about this made Reynie uneasy. Had he done so badly? Was this meant to test his courage? He did as he was told, closing his eyes and bracing himself as best he could. "Why are you flinching?" the pencil woman asked. "I don't know. I thought maybe you were going to slap me." "Don't be ridiculous. I could slap you perfectly well with your eyes open. I'm only going to blindfold you.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Eye, Done, Ridiculous

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• The truth is there are a million steps, and we don't even know what the steps are, and worse, at any given moment we may not be willing or even able to take them; and still worse, they are different for you and they are always changing. I have come to believe the sooner we will fall in love with the God who keeps shaking things up, keeps changing the path, keeps rocking the boat to test our faith in Him, teaching us to not rely on easy answers, bullet points, magic mantras, or genies in lamps, but rather in His guidance, His existence, His mercy, and His love.

  Donald Miller

  Falling In Love, Teaching, Believe

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• You love tests?" "Well, yeah. There are questions and answers. True or false, multiple choice, essay. What's not to love?

  Nora Roberts

  Multiple Choice, Choices, True Or False

  Nora Roberts (2008). “Tribute”, p.235, Penguin

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• Most of my friends from Columbia are going on to get advanced degrees. And why not? A Ph.D. is the new M.A., a master's is the new bachelor's, a B.A. is the new high school diploma, and a high school diploma is the new smiley-face sticker on your first-grade spelling test.

  Megan McCafferty

  School, Firsts, Diploma

  Megan McCafferty (2007). “Fourth Comings: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.172, Broadway Books

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• I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, "Put that thing there so I can crush it.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Crush, Believe, Men

  Ellen DeGeneres (2011). “Seriously ... I'm Kidding”, p.14, HarperCollins Australia

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• The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep on his soul, who trembles at God's word, who lets it dwell in him richly by constant meditation upon it, and who tests and reforms his life daily in response to it.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Meditation, Healthy

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• From Santi's earthly tomb with demon's hole, 'Cross Rome the mystic elements unfold. The path of light is laid, the sacred test, Let angels guide you on your lofty quest.

  Dan Brown

  Angel, Light, Rome

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• His brother maintained that what sent people backing away was neither his size nor his mother's blood, but solely the expression on his face. To test Samuel's theory, Charles had tried smiling - and then solemnly reported to Samuel that he had been mistaken. When Charles smiled, he told Samuel, people just ran faster.

  Patricia Briggs

  Mother, Brother, Expression

  Patricia Briggs (2012). “Fair Game”, p.34, Penguin

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• As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

  Bill Watterson

  Congratulations, Long, Forever

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• teenagers are never joking. when seeking to prove a point, principals and teachers should remember that teenagers are never, ever sarcasic or ironic. if they say "I wish someone would drop a bomb on this school right now," that means they have arranged for a nuclear arsenal to be emptied onto the school and should be immediately suspended and ridiculed. if they say they were merely coming up with a joking excuse to postpone a bio test, reply that all jokes are funny, and that since dropping a bomb on a school is not funny, it is therefore not a joke.

  David Levithan

  Teacher, Teenager, School

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• If you want to keep a friend, never test him.

  John Steinbeck

  Want, Ifs

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.138, Penguin

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• Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.

  Eoin Colfer

  Boys, Scratches, Earth

  Eoin Colfer (2014). “Artemis Fowl:”, p.749, Penguin UK

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• And you're not going to tell me she didn't make a move on you. At least test the waters." "The waters," he said, "were not receptive." "If they had been, I'd have drowned her in them already.

  Nora Roberts

  Moving, Water, Said

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• The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?

  Stewart O'Nan

  Love, Tests Of Love, Saddest

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• There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Character, Stories, Way

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• The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.

  Jasper Fforde

  Maturity, Unique, Two

  Jasper Fforde (2010). “The Last Dragonslayer: Last Dragonslayer”, p.54, Hachette UK

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