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Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last; but we do it to get a crown that will last forever.

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Youth is the seed-time of full age, the molding season in the little space of human life, the turning-point in the history of man’s mind.

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Isn’t it ironic that many teenagers, though fluent in multiple computer languages, are not expected to understand or care about things like personal finance, politics, or our faith? We’re not even expected to be capable of carrying on an intelligent conversation with an adult.
Isn’t it something wrong when girls are constantly judged on their physical appearance and pressed to become more and more sexually provocative, yet are so rarely expected to develop qualities of character and intellect beneath the surface?

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She [Mary] is an example to the faithful rather for the way in which, in her own particular life, she fully and responsibly accepted on it, and because she heard the word of God and acted on it, and because charity and a spirit of service were the driving force of her actions. She is worthy of imitation because she was the first and the most perfect of Christ’s disciples. All of this has a permanent and universal exemplary value.

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When I make a commitment, I have to let go of other choices. We forge our future by a commitment. A fearful or passive or indecisive person, a wavering person ends up an unhappy person, an unfulfilled and fragmented person. Trying to keep all options open, we realize none of them.

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If you really love someone, you bring him [her] to Jesus

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How do we let our friends know we’ve changed? We tell them. We show them. If we really are different, we will be willing to say so and then show it by our actions. If we can’t do that, either we have not really changed, or we care more about what other people think than about what God thinks.