James Pike quotes
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“A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.”
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“Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.”
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“It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself.”
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“The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.”
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“If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.”
-- James PikeSource : "Beyond anxiety: the Christian answer to fear, frustration, guilt, indecision, inhibition, loneliness, despair".
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“We put ourselves there. The door to hell is locked from the inside.”
-- James PikeSource : James Albert Pike (1953). “Beyond anxiety: the Christian answer to fear, frustration, guilt, indecision, inhibition, loneliness, despair”
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“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”
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“Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.”
Source : More Poems (1936) no. 36
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“I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.”
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“Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.”
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Henry Holmes Smith, Thomas B. Hess (1965). “Aaron Siskind, photographer”
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