Great power requires great character if it is to be a blessing and not a curse, and that character is something we only grow toward.
– Dallas Willard
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- …our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse…To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom – Radhanath Swami
- Resignation requires will, and will requires decision, and decision requires belief, and belief requires that there is something to believe in! – Anne Rice
- Play is the creation of value that is not necessary. – Dallas Willard
- There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God. – Dallas Willard
- The idea of having faith in Jesus has come to be totally isolated from being his apprentice and learning how to do what he said. – Dallas Willard
- To withhold our bodies from religion is to exclude religion from our lives. – Dallas Willard
- Pain helps the body grow.Riddles help the mind grow.Loss helps the heart grow.Temptations help the soul grow. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- I want to grow. I want to be better. You Grow. We all grow. We’re made to grow.You either evolve or you disappear. – Tupac Shakur
- You curse a lot.”???? you – I hardly curse at all. – Tere Michaels
- The curse of men can’t make me defiled.I defile myself if I curse men by intention. – Toba Beta
- The seasons are colliding together, storms are destroying lives, and love is a dangerous curse.-The Vangeretta Curse – Christina Mobley
- Poverty is a curse. Don’t call it. It takes few generations to come out from the curse of poverty. – Nazmul Ahmed Noyon
- Consciousness is the core of humanity. It can be a curse or it can be a cure. Only humanity can decide how to break the curse and be the cure. – Jennifer Ott
- In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. – Ezra Pound
- Did he actually believe in this curse? A curse! He snorted. Deirdre stirred. Impossible. Curses were for witches, spell casters and the weak-minded. – Jean M Grant
- It is the curse to search you in every person I meet, the curse with no cure – ehddah
- A civil tongue speaks the language of masters. An uncivil tongue reveals character flaws of its master. – John R Dallas Jr
- You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
- You can give life and take it away just as easily. You’re my blessing and my curse. – JY Tacheva
- To belong nowhere is a blessing and a curse, like any kind of freedom. – Leah Stewart
- Beauty was a curse to be borne, not a blessing. – Rebecca Johns
- Being a visionary is a blessing and a curse, you’re blessed to see things other people are not able to see but you are cursed to sit in it alone – David Banner
- In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse. – Randy Alcorn
- It’s both a blessing and a curse to see a woman’s beauty! – Ramana Pemmaraju
- The Dark Knight 2008, favourite character Joker always in the right face and showing all humans in one character. A character died from characters! – Deyth Banger
- More love, more power.Less love, less power.Great love, great power. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Her hand rose to her lips and she stared up at the stars, feeling her heart grow, and grow, and grow. – Sarah J Maas
- We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness. – Mary E DeMuth
- Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one. – AJP Taylor
- Faith is receiving a blessing before you have seen it.Wisdom is taking care of the blessing once you have received it. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- True blessing comes in the dress of sweats, never delaying to wave bye to the excuses and procrastination. True blessing lies in hard work! – Israelmore Ayivor
- The blessing we receive for following Jesus comes also with persecutions, which, if we have faith to accept them, can also be a blessing. – Lori Stanley Roeleveld
- When you commit a crime to upgrade yourself, your sin becomes a blessing, but your blessing kills you before your time. – Michael Bassey Johnson
- It is wickedness when you receive blessing and not giving blessing to people. – Sunday Adelaja
- Everything you experience is a blessing and pushes you toward realizing your true self. – Vivian Amis
- Respect toward others can’t be imposed.It’s a blessing…or learning the hard way. – Toba Beta
- Concentrate on a single feature -“ as, build all toward one eye -“ make all lines lead toward that eye. (Robert Henri) – Robert Henri
- As much as you long for it, it longs for you more. Take one step toward the Big Person and it will take a hundred steps toward you. – Christopher Pike
- Guilt is not all bad. Without it there is nothing to drive a person toward self-examination and toward God for forgiveness. – Billy Graham
- Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others… – TaNehisi Coates