Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.

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Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.

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It's not my perfect performance that captures God's attention. It's my complete dependence on Him that He notices.

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I know that I'm not perfect, but you are. Happy Valentine's Day! ― Anthony T. Hincks

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To bear the cross means that you refrain from doing what you have the power to do. You are qualified to fulfill your desire, yet you refrain from doing so. A person like this is the strongest person. The strongest person is not the one who is able to do something, but the one who is able not to do what he has the power to do.

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Life did not intend to make us perfect. Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum.

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If God seems slow in responding, it is because He is preparing a better gift. He will not deny us. God withholds what you are not yet ready for. He wants you to have a lively desire for His greatest gifts. All of which is to say, pray always and do not lose heart.

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Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. — John D. Rockefeller

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Tomaso of Florence. known as Masaccio, showed by his perfect works how those who took their nourishment from anything but nature, mistress of masters, were laboring in vain. ― Leonardo da Vinci

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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.― Neil Gaiman

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