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“One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'”

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Book:The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

Source: The Life You've Always Wanted: Spiritual Disciplines for Ordinary People

“I speak of the war as fruitless; for it is clear that, prosecuted upon the basis of the proclamations of September 22d and September 24th, 1862, prosecuted, as I must understand these proclamations, to say nothing of the kindred blood which has followed, upon the theory of emancipation, devastation, subjugation, it cannot fail to be fruitless in every thing except the harvest of woe which it is ripening for what was once the peerless republic.”

War Speak Clear Failing Blood Theory Bases Republic September Harvest Woe Emancipation Kindred Devastation Proclamation Subjugation Ripening

Author:Franklin Pierce

“He who speaks ill of an absent friend, or fails to take his part if attacked by another, that man is a scoundrel.”

Ifs Men Speak Failing Ill Absent Scoundrels Absent Friends

Author:Horace

“My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now.”

Ifs States Action America Speak Grows United United States Failing Security Danger Fellows Tonight Going Away Central America

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1986

“A man who speaks out honestly and fearlessly that which he knows, and that which he believes, will always enlist the good will and the respect, however much he may fail in winning the assent, of his fellow men.”

Knows Men Believe May Winning Speak Failing Fellows Honestly Fellow Man Good Will Speaks Out

Author:Thomas Huxley

“George Bush says he speaks to god every day, & Christians love him for it. If George Bush said he spoke to god through his hair dryer, they would think he was mad. I fail to see how the addition of a hair dryer makes it any more absurd.”

Ifs Thinking Said Christian Speak Failing Hair Mad Absurd Spokes Funny Atheist Dryers Hair Dryers

Author:Sam Harris

“I was born to fight devils and factions. It is my business to remove obstacles, to cut down thorns, to fill up quagmires and to open and make straight paths. If I must have some failing let me rather speak the truth with too great sincerity than once to act the hypocrite and conceal the truth.”

Ifs Fighting Speak Born Path Cutting Failing Devil Let Me Obstacles Remove Sincerity Hypocrite Thorns Speak The Truth Factions Straight Path Quagmire

Author:Martin Luther

“Christians fail to communicate to others because we ignore basic principles in relationship. When we make condescending judgments or proclaim lofty words that don't translate into action, or simply speak without first listening, we fail to love - and thus deter a thirsty world from Living Water. The good news about God's grace goes unheard.”

World Firsts Action Christian Speak Water Principles Grace Failing Listening Judgment News Communicate Translate Good News Lofty Thirsty God's Grace Unheard Basic Principles Condescending

Author:Philip Yancey

“The answer comes to me through studying the lives of the Rosa Parks and the Vaclav Havels and the Nelson Mandelas and the Dorothy Days of this world. These are people who have come to understand that no punishment that anybody could lay on us could possibly be worse than the punishment we lay on ourselves by conspiring in our own diminishment, by living a divided life, by failing to make that fundamental decision to act and speak on the outside in ways consonant with what we know to be true on the inside.”

People Knows World Way Speak Decision Answers Study Failing This World Fundamentals Lays Punishment Being True Parks Divided Nelson Rosa Conspiring Consonants

Author:Parker J. Palmer

“We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.”

Persons Matter Happens Action Speak Voice Justice Progress Failing Ignorance Conscious Fairs Harmony Responsible Ignorant Instant Ignored Citizenship Delay Molecules Corrections

Author:Suzy Kassem

“I think all the songs [at Moth] are about different things, but if we were to speak about it as a whole, it's really about, it's about joy, and about sensuality and vulnerability and also fun, energy, living in New York in 2015, being out of control, wanting to be in control, failing! It's a sort of story of our lives.”

Ifs Thinking Different Whole Stories Joy Song Energy Speak Fun Our Lives Failing New York Sensuality Vulnerability Different Things Moths

Author:Caroline Polachek

“In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.”

Speak Audience Failing Notes Clinton Paragraph Dazzle

Author:Gail Sheehy