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In our day many people are broad but shallow. Agnosticism, anxiety, and emptiness have gripped much of our world.

Man is not growing better! Man is not climbing upward. Instead of progress in man himself there is degeneracy__egeneracy of body, mind, and spirit. Man is going downhill.

No area of human life is so full of difficulties and heartaches as relationships. If you listed everything that upset you during the past week, I suspect most had to do with other people. People can be selfless and kind, but they can also be difficult, stubborn, ego-driven, thoughtless, mean, selfish, manipulative. But the problem is not just other people; it__ also ourselves.

There are three of you. There is the person you think you are. There is the person others think you are. There is the person God knows you are and can be through Christ.

Tell me why the gardener trims and prunes his rosebushes, sometimes cutting away productive branches, and I will tell you why God__ people are afflicted. God__ hand never slips.

The Bible says that God sees two classes of men. He sees the saved and the lost, those who are going to heaven and those who are going to hell.

The only means by which one could attain complete happiness is to avoid living in constant expectation of it. It's the expectation that causes our unhappiness and consequent bitterness about life

...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...

Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret.

God is the creator of all good plot twists!

The truth brings people closer together.

Comedians are people who embarrass themselves in style.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness.

People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.The black and the black and the black.

Who__ happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they can__ find anything to bitch about.

If you want to keep people happy, just keep the food and entertainment rolling.

Stay away from conflictive, negative people that pull you down, because they contaminate your energy and impede your progress. Search for people who look at the world with optimism, that inspire you, make you happy and provide peace of mind.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.Brian Sibley: Or brains even?Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind.If you're kind that's it.