“ A good end cannot sanctify evil means, nor must we ever do evil that good may come of it. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers. ”
- Kahlil Gibran- Copy
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“ It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it. ”
- Christian Nestell Bovee- Copy
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“ You must be holy in the way God asks you to be holy. God does not ask you to be a Trappist monk or a hermit. He wills that you sanctify your everyday life. ”
- St. Vincent Pallotti- Copy
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“ Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman. ”
- William F. Buckley Jr.- Copy
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“ The church must never become a government factory, carrying on a nationalized industry of religion with the people as the bolts and nuts; with God reduced to the role of cramped advocate of current national policy. Surely the pages of history are replete and the examples in many a foreign country convincing that this kind of church-state union — whatever the original motives, or however noble the original purposes — winds up with a state that is less than stable and a church that is less than sanctified, and with the poor still hungry. ”
- Glenn Archer- Copy
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“ But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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“ there are places we all come from — deep-rooty-common places — that make us who they are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again — and can go home again… ”
- Robert Fulghum- Copy
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“ A good end sanctify evil means; not must we ever do evil, that good might come of it. We are ready to retaliate, rather than forgive or gain by love and information … Force may subdue, but love gains. And one that forgives first wins the laurel. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliancy and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bulldoggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold. ”
- Dr. A. B. Meldrum- Copy
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“ Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the suppression of reason, but for a due recognition of that in us which sanctifies reason. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
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“ I know my fate. One day there will be associated with my name the recollection of something frightful — of a crisis like no other before on earth, of the profoundest collision of conscience, of a decision evoked against everything that until then had been believed in, demanded, sanctified… ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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