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“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
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See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they?
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But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.
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Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;
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Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
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And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body, and be thankful.
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Whatever you do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
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And whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,
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For it is God who works in you both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
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How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
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One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.
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A man’s heart plans his course, but Yahweh directs his steps.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
Booker T. Washingtonverified·Address at the Atlanta Cotton States Exposition, in Up from Slavery·September 18, 1895
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Reader, it is not to awaken sympathy for myself that I am telling you truthfully what I suffered in slavery.
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That even one individual in a society should be debarred from undertaking that form of social toil for which it is most fitted, makes an unnecessary deficit in the general social assets.
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Yet is it far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness.
Eleanor Rooseveltmisattributed·The Invincible Strategy, in The Supreme Conquest and Other Sermons Preached in America, by W. L. Watkinson·1907
Wrongly attributed
Adlai Stevenson used a version of this in his eulogy for Eleanor Roosevelt in 1962, and it has been hers ever since; it is also sold as Confucius and as an old Chinese proverb. It is neither. It is W. L. Watkinson, the English Methodist preacher, in a sermon called The Invincible Strategy, printed in 1907 -- and he presents it as a saying already in circulation rather than as his own coinage. What is certain is that this is the earliest printed appearance anybody has produced, and it predates Roosevelt's public life.