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Source: The Works of Benjamin Franklin; Containing Several Political and Historical Tracts Not Included in Any Former Edition, and Many Letters, Official and Private, Not Hitherto Published; with Notes and a Life of the Author

“Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage´s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert´s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself.”

Eye Nations Easy Daughter Sick Miracle Down And Filled Cures Instance Enthusiasm Savages Lourdes

Book:Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations

“People who want their love easy don't really want love.”

People Want Easy

Book:The Flamethrowers: A Novel

Source: The Flamethrowers: A Novel

“It's often said that God works in mysterious ways. You have to really think about what He's trying to do. You can't be lazy and believe in God; He doesn't make it that easy. It takes spirit and faith and passion to really believe. Like most things worthwhile in life, you get back what you put into it. Only with faith, you get back a lot more.”

Thinking Way Trying Believe Said Spirit Passion Easy Mysterious Lazy Get Back Believe In God Worthwhile God Works In Mysterious Ways Mysterious Ways

Book:The Christmas Train

Source: The Christmas Train

“Easy does it is what I'm looking for.”

Doe Easy

Author:Elaine Stritch

“How many young people among you are like this? You know how to give and yet you have ever learned how to receive. You still lack one thing. Become a beggar. This is what you still lack. Learn how to beg. This isn’t easy to understand. To learn how to beg. To learn how to receive with humility.”

People Knows Giving Stills Young Easy Know How One Thing Humility Beggar

Author:Pope Francis

“It's easy for me not to go to Mass on the road. But I've made a fundamental decision. I'm going to be dedicated. I'm going to make the time. I'm going to get up, if that means getting up at seven on a Sunday morning before a day game and do it, I'm going to do it.”

Ifs Mean Made Games Easy Decision Morning Mass Fundamentals Seven Get Up Sunday Dedicated Sunday Morning

Author:Mike Piazza

“Prayer can be simple, but it's not easy. Nothing great is.”

Easy Prayer Simple

Author:Timothy Keller

“Are there so many fascinating, exciting things to do or so many challenges pressing down upon you that it is hard to keep focused on that which is essential? When things of the world crowd in, all too often the wrong things take highest priority. Then it is easy to forget the fundamental purpose of life. Satan has a powerful tool to use against good people. It is distraction. He would have good people fill life with 'good things' so there is no room for the essential ones. Have you unconsciously been caught in that trap?”

“It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.”

Knows World Want Looks Heart Long Stills Hard Shows Eye Asks Easy Magic This World Hard Work Terrible Labor Harder

Book:The Fairyland Series

Source: The Fairyland Series

“Closeout games are actually kind of easy.”

Kind Games Easy

Author:Andrew Bynum

“Success is not as easy as winners make it look nor as hard as losers make it sound.”

Looks Hard Easy Sound Winner Loser

Author:Orrin Woodward

“Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.”

Years Wanted Easy Struggle Happened Promise Offers

Author:Morgan Freeman

“The path God chooses for each of us to follow isn't always an easy one, but we all have to decide whether or not we're willing to trust in His wisdom and embrace His will”

Easy Path Willing Embrace

Book:Love's First Bloom

Source: Love's First Bloom

“I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.”

Believe Age Wanted Easy Acting Don't Believe Birthday 60th Birthday Predestination

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I do not have easy days at home now and I drift between fear and helplessness in sunny rooms where it is unspeakably cold. Strange shudders of transformation, bodily experienced to the point of vulnerability, visions of mysteries until the certainty of having died, ecstasies to the point of stony petrifaction, and a continuation of dreaming sad dreams.”

Home Dream Easy Rooms Vision Mystery Strange Cold Died Transformation Certainty Vulnerability Ecstasy Sunny Helplessness Continuation Easy Days

Author:Georg Trakl

“Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show that when we read nonfiction, we read with our shields up. We are critical and skeptical. But when we are absorbed in a story, we drop our intellectual guard. We are moved emotionally, and this seems to make us rubbery and easy to shape.”

Stories Shows Seems Belief Easy Fiction Study Shapes Intellectual Evidence Argument Moved Critical Nonfiction Skeptical Shields

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“What is hard work? It takes strength, energy, and stress to truly care about others enough to place oneself last, but it is easy to wrap oneself up and selfishly scramble on the heads of others.”

Hard Enough Care Lasts Energy Easy Hard Work Stress Oneself Working It Wraps

Book:Killosophy

Source: Killosophy

“With any novel that you begin, you can't foresee how difficult or easy it's going to be, and you can't really prepare yourself. You just have a take it one step at a time and know that it's all right to keep going - you can always fix it.”

Knows Easy Difficult Steps Novel Keep Going One Step At A Time

Author:Jane Smiley

“Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“There was definitely a lack of any sort of villain in the Clinton era, which is why when Columbine happened, it was easy to pick on me. My face was around and it made good TV.”

Made Faces Easy Happened Tvs Picks Clinton Eras Villain Columbine Different Eras

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?”

Ifs Should Firsts Shows Kids Easy Example Divorce Civility

Author:Dawn French

“To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action.”