Name
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As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As then baptism has been given us by the Savior, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, so, in accordance with our baptism, we make the confession of the creed, and our doxology in accordance with our creed.
Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God — if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.
I can't believe that people actually know my first and last name. I think it's really, really, gosh-darn neat.
For those of us with an inward turn of mind, which is another name for melancholy introspection, the beginning of a new year inevitably leads to thoughts about both the future and the past.
Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.
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