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Those who join the Carmelite Order are not lost to their near and dear ones, but have been won for them, because it is our vocation to intercede to God for everyone.

— Edith Stein

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The gospel is for the defeated, not the dominant.

— Tullian Tchividjian

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world - not to win them, but to be like them.

— Billy Graham

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

— Mary Douglas

Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.

— Karen Armstrong

Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

— Abu Bakr

The beloved of the Almighty are: the rich who have the humility of the poor, and the poor who have the magnanimity of the rich.

— Saadi

It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.

— Matthew Henry

It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.

— Vance Havner

✗Opposing Perspectives

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

— Arthur Schopenhauer