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“I find when most people are honest about their spiritual pilgrimage, they admit to the difficulty of maintaining the habit of a spiritual discipline. What attracks me most about the Anglican spiritual tradition is that it provides purposeful spiritual direction in the life of Christ.”

People Spiritual Christ Honest Habit Discipline Tradition Difficulty Maintaining Pilgrimage Spiritual Disciplines Spiritual Direction

Book:Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church - Revised Edition

Source: Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church - Revised Edition

“I want to emphasize in the great concentration which we now place upon scientists and engineers how much we still need the men and women educated in the liberal tradition, willing to take the long look, undisturbed by prejudices and slogans of the moment, who attempt to make an honest judgment on difficult events.”

“To be honest, I don't really consider myself a prodigy. Learning the piano, I have encountered some difficulties. There are many challenges in playing and I've grown frustrated at times... But because I like to play the piano, I never thought of giving up. I was always able to overcome difficulties in pianistic techniques. Yes, there might be some 'traffic lights', but they all turned 'green'.”

Giving Play Light Might Able Challenges Honest Giving Up Overcoming Difficulty Green Technique Being Honest Piano Frustrated Traffic Prodigies Traffic Light

Author:George Li

“Everybody is on a lifelong journey toward trying to live more deeply. There is nobody who can say, "Well, I've got that one checked off my to-do list." We have to be honest with ourselves about where we are on this journey and about the difficulty of living in our own identities and integrity.”

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Author:Parker J. Palmer

“To me, honesty and the difficulty of honest communication are at the heart of both my life and my movies. The difficulty of being yourself.”

Heart Honest Honesty Communication Difficulty Being Yourself

Author:Ira Sachs

“Almost any difficulty will move in the face of honesty. When I am honest I never feel stupid. And when I am honest I am automatically humble.”

Feels Faces Moving Honest Stupid Honesty Humility Difficulty Humble Being Honest Be Humble Honesty Inspirational

Book:Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions

Source: Standing on My Head: Life Lessons in Contradictions

“I wish to live without hate, whim, jealousy, envy, and fear. I wish to be simple, honest, frank, natural . . to face any obstacle and meet every difficulty unabashed and unafraid.”

Faces Hate Wish Fear Natural Simple Honest Difficulty Obstacles Envy Frank Whim Unafraid Jealousy Envy

Book:Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others

Source: Love, Life & Work: Being a Book of Opinions Reasonably Good-Natured Concerning How to Attain the Highest Happiness for One's Self with the Least Possible Harm to Others

“A blessed thing it is to have a friend; one human soul whom we can trust utterly; who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults; who will speak the honest truth to us, while the world flatters us to our face, and laughs at us behind our back; who will give us counsel and reproof in a day of prosperity and self-conceit; but who, again, will comfort and encourage us in days of difficulty and sorrow, when the world leaves us alone to fight our own battle as we can.”

Source: The Works of Charles Kingsley

“The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.”

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Book:The Age of Reason, etc

Source: The Age of Reason, etc

“How desperately difficult it is to be honest with oneself. It is much easier to be honest with other people.”

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Author:Edward Benson

“There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.”

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Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it.”

Men Writing Three Literature Honest Difficulty Sensible Publishing Publish Honest Man Authorship Successful Writing

Author:Charles Caleb Colton