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Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.
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Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior
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Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.
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The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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No one man is superior to the game.
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
