Helmuth James Graf von Moltke famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Today, not a numerous, but an active part of the German people are beginning to realize, not that they have been led astray, not that bad times await them, not that the war may end in defeat, but that what is happening is sin and that they are personally responsible for each terrible deed that has been committed - naturally, not in the earthly sense, but as Christians.
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The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.
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In the long run luck is given only to the efficient.
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Every war is a national misfortune.
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Since National Socialism came to power, I have striven to make its consequences milder for its victims and to prepare the way for a change. In that, my conscience drove me -- and in the end, that is a man's duty.
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God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.
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I would rather play with forked lightning, or take in my hand living wires with their fiery current, than to speak a reckless word against any servant of Christ, or idly repeat the slanderous darts which thousands of Christians are hurling on others, to the hurt of their own souls and bodies.
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…for a true Christian, all strangers are Jesus.
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Hell is the place where one has ceased to hope.
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Matt Hock was the first person who showed me how much fun and how cool it can be to be a Christian,
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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People who deal with life generously and large-heartedly go on multiplying relationships to the end.
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