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“The man who has struggled bravely with the passions of the body, has fought ably against unclean spirits, and has expelled from his soul the conceptual images they provoke, should pray for a pure heart to be given him and for a spirit of integrity to be renewed within him (cf. Ps. 51:10). In other words, he should pray that by grace he may be completely emptied of evil thoughts and filled with divine thoughts, so that he may become a spiritual world of God, splendid and vast, wrought from moral, natural and theological forms of contemplation.”

“May I be given the appropriate difficulties so that my heart can truly open with compassion. Imagine asking for that.”

Heart May Given Compassion Imagine My Heart Difficulty Asking Appropriate

Author:Jack Kornfield

“My dear citizens, fellow citizens, French people, this 6th of May, have just chosen change by bringing me the presidency of the French republic. I feel the honor, which has been given to me and the task, the important task faced beyond - in front of you to serve my country.”

People Feels May Has Beens Important Country Given Fronts Citizens Honor Tasks Fellows Dear Chosen Republic Presidency

Author:Francois Hollande

“Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.”

May Given Favors Abandon

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.”

Knows May Given Sports Diverse Guise

Book:Epicurean Simplicity

Source: Epicurean Simplicity

“Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.”

May Self Names Energy Given Causes Divine Thousand Oneness Primaries

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“One magnitude is said to be the limit of another magnitude when the second may approach the first within any given magnitude, however small, though the second may never exceed the magnitude it approaches.”

Firsts May Said Given Limits Approach Mathematics Exceed Magnitude

Author:Jean le Rond d'Alembert

“An order given in battle, an instruction issued by the master of a sailing ship, a cry for help, are as powerful in modifying the course of events as any other bodily act...You utter a vow or forge a signature and you may find yourself bound for life to a monastery, a woman or prison.”

“The apparent pointlessness of fashion may be just what makes it so strong as a zeitgeist sensor. Even I, a designer, do not know why a certain proportion feels dated or why another one feels exciting at a given moment. I leave that to the cultural historians and theorists.”

Knows Feels May Moments Certain Strong Given Fashion Exciting Designer Proportion Historian Theorists Zeitgeist Sensors Pointlessness

Author:Jil Sander

“Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.”

Humans May Culture Given Sex Black Human Beings Rights Diversity Social Justice Inherent Black History Black History Month Complexion Black History Month Inspirational

Book:The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison

Source: The Words of Garrison: A Centennial Selection (1805-1905) of Characteristic Sentiments from the Writings of William Lloyd Garrison

“It is so natural for us to consider our presence as indispensable in the world, so long as we have much to do in it, that the wisdom of retiring wholly from employments in advanced life may be questioned. Certainly, he who does so is in danger of finding, before long, that he has only given up the occupation to which he has been accustomed, for the new business of calculating the period of his decease.”

World May Long Doe Has Beens Given Natural Danger Periods Findings Employment Occupation Retirement Retiring Indispensable Accustomed Given Up Calculating New Business

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.”

May Past Courses Given Lines Possibility Limits Fixed Standing Out Initials

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even dreams themselves may be turned to beauty, by favoured men to whom nature has given the powers of casting them into form.”

Ifs Men Needs May Dream Would Be Form Turns Given Waking Dreamer Casting

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.”

Men May Order Given Sound Shapes Crisis Ingenuity

Book:Light in August

Source: Light in August

“Let the word and the legend go before you. Let the world go before you. Let your shadow grow. Let it grow hair on its face. Let it become dark. Given time, words may even enchant an enchanter.”

World May Faces Given Grows Dark Hair Shadow Legends Dark Tower Series

Author:Stephen King

“The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.”

Way May Found Given Force Water Movement Objects Listening Limits Function Sake Boundaries Fixed Helpful Listeners Fulfilling Definite Centre Confined Talkers Canals Restraining Erratic

Author:Charles Dickens

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