Steven C. Hawthorne famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The world may be as evangelized as it will ever get if we attempt to complete the remaining task with a motivation built around the fleeting feelings of compassion. Mercy can strike a match, but we need emissaries from many lands who are ablaze with the inexhaustible fuel of jealousy for God's glory.
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You can do something other than working with God in His purpose, but it will always be something lesser, and you couldn't come up with something better.
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God is so pleased when He finds His heart beating in another.
-- Steven C. Hawthorne
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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Both of them can get it. They can line up. I'll fight both of them in one night, and I bet it won't go 12 rounds.
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You seen it, was it as pretty as me?
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I don't play games. I ran away from home because my Dad brought me an Xbox.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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If pity was always equally alive and acting in all individuals and in all circumstances, we could do away with moral. Unfortunately, it is not compassion, but rather it's contrary, selfishness, that act most strongly in us.
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Apart from selfish reasons, such as fear of punishments, fear of blame, of dishonour, etc, there remains only two motives that can stop (or prevent, "empâecher", Fr.) men from acting badly; the natural sense of commiseration (or "sympathy", - "commisération", Fr.) for one's fellow men - compassion, and the influence of education, by association of ideas ("par l'association d'idées", Fr.) - habit.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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Good night; ensured release, Imperishable peace, Have these for yours. * While sky and sea and land And earth's foundations stand And heaven endures. *These three lines are on the tablet over Housman's grave in the parish church at Ludlow, Shropshire, England
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
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