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“The gathering of believers should be an opportunity for wonder, anticipation and imagination; not drudgery, duty or routine.”

Should Opportunity Imagination Wonder Duty Believer Routine Anticipation Gathering Drudgery

Author:Ross Parsley

“It is for us to discharge the high duties that devolve on us, and carry our race onward. To be no better, no wiser, no greater than the past is to be little and foolish and bad; it is to misapply noble means, to sacrifice glorious opportunities for the performance of sublime deeds, to become cumberers of the ground.”

Mean Littles Past Opportunity Race Greater Progress Sacrifice Duty Performances Deeds Noble Foolish Glorious Wiser Sublime Discharge

Book:Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

Source: Selections from the writings and speeches of William Lloyd Garrison: With an appendix ...

“Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the great question here is, not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you can ever get will be in yourself. Take your burdens and troubles and losses and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunity, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.”

Ifs Facts Opportunity Strong Wealth Loss Knowing Greater Trouble Duty Harder Stronger Burden Gods Will Greater Things Greatest Wealth

Book:Sermons for the new life

Source: Sermons for the new life

“Zeal and duty are not slow But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.”

Opportunity Waiting Duty Occasions Zeal

Author:John Milton

“The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.”

Giving Dies Opportunity Ability Duty Fundamentals

Author:Aubrey de Grey

“It is our solemn duty, our precious privilege-even our sacred opportunity-to welcome to our homes and to our hearts the children who grace our lives.”

Heart Children Home Opportunity Grace Our Lives Duty Sacred Privilege Welcome Solemn

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others.”

People Needs Feels Years Kind May Government Opportunity Leadership Virtue Worst Danger Duty Superiors Golden Inherent Civics Reluctant Civic Duty Distaste Golden Opportunity

Book:Controversial Essays

Source: Controversial Essays

“A new year is upon us, with new duties, new conflicts, new trials, and new opportunities. Start on the journey with Jesus--to walk with Him, to work for Him, and to win souls to Him. The last year of the century, it may be the last of our lives! A happy year will it be to those who, through every path of trial, or up every hill of difficulty, or over every sunny height,, march on in closest fellowship with Jesus, and who will determine that, come what may, they have Christ every day.”

“Today there are a lot places where people say they're just hopeless. If I can come from a hopeless country, get an education, become a hyphenated American and become president of the World Bank, it's my moral duty to make sure that every single person on the planet has that opportunity.”

People Ifs World Persons I Can Country Today Opportunity President Moral Planets Duty Hopeless Single Person Moral Duty World Bank

Author:Jim Yong Kim

“Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences.”

Source: The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations