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~ Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty, it is it's own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. ~

Mahatma Ghandi

~ Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God. ~

John Quincy Adams

~ Being made in the image of God, man was the crown of creation. ~

Walter Lang

~ Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God. ~

Samuel M. Hageman

~ The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land ~

Joseph Conrad

~ God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies. ~

Martin Luther

~ All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare. ~

Jonathan Mayhew

~ Sequoias, kings of their race, growing close together like grass in a meadow, poised their brave domes and spires in the sky three hundred feet above the ferns and lilies that enameled the ground; towering serene through the long centuries, preaching God's forestry fresh from heaven ~

John Muir

~ "To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him." ~

Frederick Buechner

~ If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? ~

Cardinal Richeleu

~ God made only water, but man made wine. ~

Vixtor Hugo

~ I intend to die in a tavern; let the wine be placed near my dying mouth, so that when the choirs of angels come, they may say, God be merciful to this drinker ~

Walter Map

~ Thanks be to God, since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company. ~

Samuel Pepys

~ WINE and Fermented grape-juice known to the Womens Christian Union as liquor, sometimes as rum. Wine, madam, is Gods next best gift to man. ~

Ambrose Bierce

~ Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I am halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner. ~

Lynda Montgomery

~ Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends. ~

Anonymous

~ I will not eat anything that walks, runs, skips, hops or crawls. God knows that I have crawled on occasion, and I am glad that no one ate me. ~

Alex Poulos

~ The biblical case for vegetarianism does not rest on the view that killing may never be allowable in the eyes of God, rather on the view that killing is always a grave matter. When we have to kill to live we may do so, but when we do not, we should live otherwise ~

ANDREW LINZEY

~ Then God said, I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give every green plant for food. ~

BIBLE

~ God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight. ~

Reggie White

~ Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. ~

Brooks Atkinson

~ Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - Thank God It's Friday. They live for the†weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do. ~

Richard Nelson†Bolles†

~ There are several reasons why Russians view the oppressive state positively. First, in the Russian Orthodox religion, there is an understanding of authority as something sent by God. ~

Ryszard Kapuscinski

~ Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people. ~

Charles Hodge

~ At various times during the last four thousand years God has asserted his rights and endeavoured to establish his own authority, his own laws, and his own government among the children of men. ~

Orson Pratt

~ I cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us. There is one God looking down on us all. We are all the children of one God. The sun, the darkness, the winds are all listening to what we have to say. ~

Geronimo

~ I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness. ~

Frances Farmer

~ Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. ~

Peace Pilgrim

~ If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally. ~

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

~ You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed. ~

Barry Long

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