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“There is explosive power in virtue.”

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Dutch Christian missionary and author, known for her role in helping Jews escape Nazi persecution during World War II. Corrie Ten Boom is renowned for her book 'The Hiding Place', which tells her own story and faith. more

“Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him. His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want.”

Men World Want Feels Home Earth Growing Findings Importance Pressure Prosperity Circles Reputation Being Real Acquaintance Absorbing

Book:The Screwtape Letters

Source: The Screwtape Letters

“For nighttime or for an event, I'm all about the nice heel. Something that's still walkable but definitely very elegant.”

Stills Nice Events Heels Elegant Nighttime

Author:Carly Rae Jepsen

“We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child.”

Men Children Lost He Man Beast Faculty Shocked Distinguished Invaluable

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost in both time and space a good deal. At least being lost in space kept you busy.”

Lost Speak Space Deals Worst Busy Time And Space Arthur Arthur Dent

Book:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five

“Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.”

People Stills Helping Can Do Technology Focus Achieve Listening Deaf Gallaudet

Author:I. King Jordan

“Faith was intended precisely for the simple, but the quest for certainty and simplicity becomes dangerous when it leads to fanaticism and narrow-mindedness. When reason as such becomes suspect, then faith itself becomes falsified.”

Reason Simple Dangerous Simplicity Certainty Suspects Quests Fanaticism Narrow Mindedness

Author:Pope Benedict XVI

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