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Advice to Presbyters, The First Letter of Peter

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Advice to Presbyters. Tend the flock of God in your midst, [overseeing] not by constraint but willingly, as God would have it, not for shameful profit but eagerly. Do not lord it over those assigned to you, but be examples to the flock. And when the chief Shepherd is revealed, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. + 1 Peter 5,2-4 http://www.usccb.org/bible/books-of-the-bible/ http://www.usccb.org/bible/1peter/5

The Answer to Prayers, Gospel of Matthew

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The Answer to Prayers. “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. + Gospel of Matthew 7,7-8 http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/7

Plan, ZHUGE Liang

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謀事在人成事在天。 - 諸葛亮, 三國演義 Man proposes, god disposes. - ZHUGE Liang (諸葛亮, 181–234), Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義)

The Demand for a Sign, Gospel of Luke

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The Demand for a Sign. While still more people gathered in the crowd, he said to them, “This generation is an evil generation; it seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it, except the sign of Jonah. + Gospel of Luke 11,29 http://www.usccb.org/bible/luke/11