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“Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached the conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true. The consequence was a positively fanatic orgy of freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is intentionally being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression. Mistrust of every kind of authority grew out of this experience, a skeptical attitude toward the convictions that were alive in any specific social environment - an attitude that has never again left me. - Albert Einstein, Autobiographical Notes, edited by Paul Arthur Schilpp”
Albert Einstein

“I believe we should pray that God will take possession of our lives totally and completely. We should pray that we will be emptied of self— self-love, self-will, self-ambition—and be placed completely at His disposal.”
Billy Graham

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar”
Abraham Lincoln

“As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields.”
Leo Tolstoy

“Fourscore and seven years ago...”
Abraham Lincoln

“Be absolute for death; for either death or life shall be the sweeter.”
Nelson Mandela

“Most successful people move from fear to failure; to faith and then to fruitfulness. That's the trend.”
Israelmore Ayivor

“You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“Followers tell you what you want to hear. Leaders tell you what you need to hear.”
John C. Maxwell

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
Mahatma Gandhi

“I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.”
Albert Einstein

“If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing. Who in his sense would not keep, if he could, that tireless curiosity, that intensity of imagination, that facility of suspending disbelief, that unspoiled appetite, that readiness to wonder, to pity, and to admire?”
C.S. Lewis

“That's what most people lack: having the guts to go on and just say they'll go through the pain no matter what happens.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Look up on a starry night, and you will see the majesty and power of an infinite Creator.”
Billy Graham

“Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?”
C.S. Lewis

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