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To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

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He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

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Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.

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If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

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The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away. -Ronald Reagan In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

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What can be hoped for which is not believed?

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Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

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Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

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The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.

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It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

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Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

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Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?

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For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

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Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

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One never errs more safely than when one errs by too much loving the truth.

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God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

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The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.

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The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

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