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“If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before – then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary; and after one's original conversion, every time one thinks one has made an advance, that is the test to apply. Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in 'religion' mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better; just as in an illness 'feeling better' is not much good if the thermometer shows that your temperature is still going up. In that sense the outer world is quite right to judge Christianity by its results. Christ told us to judge by results. A tree is known by its fruit; or, as we say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating. When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The war-time posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world taking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself.”
C.S. Lewis

“Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence.”
Leo Tolstoy

“One of the main weaknesses of mankind is the average man's familiarity with the word "impossible.”
Napoleon Hill

“As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms.”
C.S. Lewis

“If you turn things over to God, you will finally find the power you need to break free.”
Joyce Meyer

“We are not Human Beings experiencing spiritual lives, we are spiritual beings experiencing human lives.”
Oprah Winfrey

“She was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America.They’re not famous. Their names are not in the newspapers, but each and every day they work hard. They aren’t seeking the limelight. All they try to do is just do the right  “You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate.”
Barack Obama

“The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Thomas A. Edison

“I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.”
Frank Herbert

“Anything is better than lies and deceit!
Leo Tolstoy

“You don’t have a silver spoon in your mouth. You have a golden spoon in your palms. Use it and feed yourself”
Israelmore Ayivor

“I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things.”
Abraham Lincoln

“We must never be afraid to be a sign of contradiction for the world.” 
Mother Teresa

“The emptiness of your pocket is not a recipe for you to discount the value of your passion!”
Israelmore Ayivor

“It takes two to make a quarrel. If I do not want to quarrel with a Mahomedan, the latter will be powerless to foist a quarrel on me; and, similarly, I should be powerless if a Mahomedan refuses his assistance to quarrel with me.
Mahatma Gandhi

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