Food for Thought
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“When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.” Corrie Ten Boom [1892-1983] Dutch Christian watchmaker, writer, and evangelist
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“We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity.” Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919]26th President of the United States
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“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” Charles H. Spurgeon [1834-1892] Highly influential English Particular Baptist preacher
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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-1968] American Baptist Minister and Civil Rights Activist Spokesperson and Leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
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“We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments.” James Madison [1751-1836] 4th President of the United States
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“One of the (many) odd conceits of celebrityhood is the notion that the ability to sing or tell jokes or portray other characters somehow qualifies one to tell others how to vote.” Pat Sajak [1946-] (@patsajak) November 2, 2018
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“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’” Martin Luther King, Jr. [1929-1968] American Baptist Minister and Civil Rights Activist Spokesperson and Leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
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“The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it.” H. L. Mencken [1880-1956] American Journalist
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“Seeing someone reading a book that you love, is like seeing a book recommending a person.” Anonymous
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“Lord, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.” Reinhold Niebuhr [1892-1971] American Theologian, Ethicist, and Political Commentator