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Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

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Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

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The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

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Poetry is the Devil's wine.

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Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.

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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

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Whoever possesses God is happy.

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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

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This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

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The purpose of all wars, is peace.

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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

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Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

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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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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

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Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

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For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.

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If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

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