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    Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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    Genesis 50:20, Job 42:5-6 , Ecclesiastes 12:13, Luke 10:41-42, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalm 46:10
    I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. On the near side of complexity is simplistic; on the far...

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    John O'Donohue
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    Isaiah 33:17, Psalm 90:17, Philippians 4:8, Song of Solomon 2:10-12, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Isaiah 6:13, Ecclesiastes 3:11
    When we lose sight of beauty our struggle becomes tired and functional. When we expect and engage the Beautiful, a new fluency is set free within us and between us. The heart becomes rekindled and our...

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    Laura Sobiech
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    Romans 8:18, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalm 30:5, 1 Peter 5:10, James 1:2-4, Isaiah 61:3, Romans 5:3-5
    “[Zach] had gone from seeing beauty in the midst of suffering to creating it. He had taken this thing that could have suffocated him with despair and stripped it down until all that was left was hope....

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    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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    John 16:33, Proverbs 24:10, 1 Peter 5:10, Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 4:13, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Romans 5:3-5
    Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challeng...

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    Eugene H. Peterson
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    Romans 8:28, 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18, James 1:2-4, Philippians 4:11-12, Colossians 3:23-24, Proverbs 3:5-6
    The only opportunity you will ever have to live by faith is in the circumstances you are provided this very day: this house you live in, this family you find yourself in, this job you have been given,...

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    Nelson Mandela
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 41:10, 2 Timothy 1:7, Romans 8:15, Psalm 27:1, Philippians 4:6-7
    May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Philippians 4:13, 1 Peter 2:9, Colossians 3:10, Hebrews 11:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Galatians 2:20, Romans 10:9
    We are what we believe we are.

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    Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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    Isaiah 43:19, Song of Solomon 4:7, Philippians 4:8, 2 Corinthians 4:16, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Psalm 147:3, Isaiah 61:3
    If the too obvious, too straight branches of Truth and Good are crushed or amputated and cannot reach the light—yet perhaps the . . . unexpected branches of Beauty will make their way through and soar...

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    Christopher Lasch
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    Matthew 11:28-30, Luke 10:39-42, Colossians 3:1-2, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:19-21
    People today hunger not for personal salvation, let alone for the restoration of an earlier golden age, but for the feeling, the momentary illusion, of personal well-being, health, and psychic securit...

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    Viktor E. Frankl
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    Matthew 5:10, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, James 2:15-17, Hebrews 13:3, Matthew 25:35-36, Philippians 4:12-13
    We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficie...

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    Will Durant
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    Proverbs 4:23, Daniel 6:3-4 , Exodus 35:30-35, Philippians 4:8, Colossians 3:23-24 , Psalm 1:1-3
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather have these because we have acted rightly; these virtues are formed in man by d...

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    Ernst Bloch
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:13, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 71:14, Hebrews 11:1, Isaiah 40:31
    It is important to learn hoping. Its work does not despair, it fell in love with succeeding rather than with failure. Hoping, located above fearing, is neither passive like the latter nor imprisoned i...

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    A. W. Tozer
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    Matthew 17:20, Matthew 19:20, Mark 10:27, Luke 1:37, Luke 18:27, Colossians 3:23-24, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Ephesians 2:10, Philippians 4:13, Philippians 2:13
    God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible. What a pity that we plan only the things we can do by ourselves.

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    Dallas Willard
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    Revelation 21:23, Colossians 3:12, 2 Corinthians 3:18, Titus 2:11-12, Isaiah 61:3, Philippians 4:8, Psalm 27:4
    If your salvation does not include living with God in beauty, truth, and goodness, it’s going to be a very dry haul. And so much of our difficulty today for Christians in this world, and for the world...

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    Helen Keller
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    Matthew 17:20, Luke 1:37, Ephesians 3:20, Philippians 4:13, Mark 11:24, 2 Corinthians 4:18
    Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

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    Rick Warren
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    Proverbs 23:7, Romans 12:2, Philippians 4:8, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Colossians 3:2, Matthew 22:37, Isaiah 26:3
    The way you think determines the way you feel, and the way you feel determines the way you act.

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Deuteronomy 30:19, Psalm 118:24, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:34, Jeremiah 29:11
    Trust no future, howe’er pleasant!  Let the dead Past bury its dead!  Act,—act in the living present!  Heart within, and God o’erhead!

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    Seth Godin
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:13, Proverbs 16:3, Romans 8:28, Galatians 6:7-8
    The myth seems to be that you’re born with some magic combination of parents, DNA, and lucky breaks, and they conspire to determine what you accomplish in life. Nonsense. And a good thing, too, becaus...

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    Joshua Choonmin Kang
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    Micah 6:8, Psalm 34:18, 1 Peter 5:6-7, Proverbs 22:4, Philippians 4:7
    Humility brings peace, for when we reach the low place, we needn’t worry about falling down anymore.

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    George Washington Carver
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    Philippians 4:13, Matthew 19:26, John 15:5, Psalm 37:5, Mark 11:24
    There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Mark 2:1-12, John 4:1-42, Ruth 1:4, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Genesis 37:50, Isaiah 43:2, Philippians 4:6-7
    My job is not to solve people's problems or make them happy, but to help them see the grace operating in their lives.

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    Stanley Kunitz
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    Romans 5:3-4, Lamentations 3:31-32, Psalm 73:26, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 61:3
    How shall my heart be reconciled to its feast of losses?

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    Fredrick Langbridge
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    2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Hebrews 11:1, Isaiah 40:31, Romans 5:3-5, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 42:11, Philippians 4:8
    Because of this we have hope: Two men look out through the same bars One sees mud, one sees stars.

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Romans 15:13, Psalm 130:5, Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:6-7, Lamentations 3:25-26, Psalm 27:14
    Hoping does not mean doing nothing. It is not fatalistic resignation. It means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions. It is not compelled to w...

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    Andrew M. Davis
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    1 Peter 3:15, Philippians 4:6-7, Romans 15:13, James 1:2-3, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
    It is no stretch to say that the Lord may orchestrate amazingly challenging circumstances for you and your family for the primary purpose of giving your supernatural hope and Christian contentment a p...

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    Langston Hughes
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    Ephesians 3:20, Psalm 126:5, Isaiah 40:31, Hebrews 11:1, Philippians 4:13, Psalm 37:4
    Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

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    Michael Gorman
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    2 Corinthians 11:23-30, 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Philippians 4:11-12, Romans 8:18, 2 Corinthians 4:17-18, 2 Corinthians 6:4-5, 2 Timothy 3:10-12, Philippians 1:12, Philippians 3:8
    The sufferings of Paul are not interruptions to his mission but are intrinsic to it; through them the message of Christ crucified is embodied.

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    F.B. Meyer
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    1 Samuel 1:9-20, Job 42:1-6, Jeremiah 31:15-17, Psalm 55:22 , Philippians 4:6-7 , Matthew 11:28-30
    As we pour out our bitterness, God pours in his peace.

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    Dallas Willard
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    Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 4:13, Joshua 1:9, Hebrews 12:1-2, 2 Timothy 1:7, Ephesians 6:10-11
    This is an age for spiritual heroes—a time for men and women to be heroic in faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its messa...

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    Benjamin Franklin
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    1 Timothy 6:6-10, Philippians 4:11-13, Proverbs 15:16, 1 Kings 21:1-16, Ecclesiastes 5:10, Philippians 4:11-13, Luke 12:15, Matthew 6:19-21, Psalm 37:16-17
    Contentment makes much of little; greed makes little of much. Contentment is the poor man’s riches and desire the rich man’s poverty.
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