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“If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well. If you can't be a pine at the top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley. Be be the best little shrub on the side of the hill.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. From a response to an offer of conditional freedom, read by Zindzi Mandela at a rally, Jabulani Stadium, Soweto, South Africa,” 
Nelson Mandela

“I believe that things we cry over because they are lost, can never be compared to things we will receive because of our loses. God is a great restorer!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks but the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times!”
Bruce Lee

“Christ . . . didn’t come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man’s disease.”
Billy Graham

“Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”
Martin Luther King Jr

“If we are to depend on prayer during tough times, we should be people of prayer before the crisis hits.”
Billy Graham

“You care, you dare and you share; this is the unforgettable rule of every true believer and achiever.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“It does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.”
C.S. Lewis

“You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.”
C.S. Lewis

“Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul’s face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind.”
Frank Herbert

“In Houston, Texas, a man was born again in one of our meetings. He owned a liquor store. The next morning he had a sign on the front of his door saying, “Out of business.”
Billy Graham

“When your intellect, once perverted by listening to all manner of arguments, is totally absorbed in the contemplation of God, you will then attain yoga. When a person is firmly established in samadhi — samadhi means fixing the mind on God — he is filled with ecstatic love and, therefore, can be completely indifferent to this world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Every time we choose action over ease we develop an increasing level of self-worth, self-respect, and self-confidence.”
John C. Maxwell

“...good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge?...to put the heart of martial arts inyour own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension and the use of a free style. When you have that you will know that there are no limits.”
Bruce Lee

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