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“My personal life may be crowded with small petty incidents, altogether unnoticeable and mean; but if I obey Jesus Christ in the haphazard circumstances, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God, and when I stand face to face with God I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When once God's Redemption comes to the point of obedience in a human soul, it always creates. If I obey Jesus Christ, the Redemption of God will rush through me to other lives, because behind the deed of obedience is the Reality of Almighty God.”

Source: Run Today's Race: A Word from Oswald Chambers for Every Day of the Year

“He is a friend who, in dubious circumstances, aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.”

Friends Circumstances Deeds Aids Dubious

Book:The comedies of Plautus literally tr., with notes, by H.T. Riley

Source: The comedies of Plautus literally tr., with notes, by H.T. Riley

“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge; yet not the details, but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful, manly part, or a poor, drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions, they have a substantial truth.”

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: With a Biographical Introduction and Notes

“Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.”

Sleep Arms Circumstances Terrible Deeds Costumes

Book:Early Lectures: 1838-1842

Source: Early Lectures: 1838-1842

“Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows Does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.”

Wells Doe Purpose Circumstances Equal Angel Deeds Firm

Book:Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality

Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality

“The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see a number of human beings placed in certain circumstances; and we see, arising from the co-operation of their characters in these circumstances, certain actions. These actions beget others, and these others beget others again, until this series of inter-connected deeds leads by an apparently inevitable sequence to a catastrophe.”

Men Humans Character Happens Action Certain Human Beings Numbers Circumstances Tragedy Series Deeds Connected Inevitable Operations Catastrophe Sequence Calamity Begets

Book:Shakespearean Tragedy

Source: Shakespearean Tragedy

“Just as the performance of the vilest and most wicked deeds requires spirit and talent, so even the greatest demand a certain insensitivity which under other circumstances we would call stupidity.”

Spirit Certain Talent Circumstances Demand Performances Deeds Stupidity Wicked Insensitivity

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“The pain comes from more than the facts of circumstance, or the deeds of others. It comes from within. From understanding what we lost. It comes from knowing how foolish we were - vain, arrogant children - when we thought ourselves happy. It comes from knowing how fragile and doomed the old ways were, just when we thought them and ourselves, secure!. The pain comes from knowing we have never been safe, and therefore will never be safe again. It comes from knowing we can never be children again.”

Way Children Facts Pain Lost Understanding Knowing Circumstances Safe Deeds Foolish Secure Vain Fragile Arrogant Doomed Old Ways

Author:John Jakes