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Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

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His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

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Your first task is to be dissatisfied with yourself, fight sin, and transform yourself into something better. Your second task is to put up with the trials and temptations of this world that will be brought on by the change in your life and to persevere to the very end in the midst of these things.

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Be always displeased with what you are if you wish to be what you are not. Always add, always walk, always proceed. Neither stand still nor go back nor deviate.

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I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

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What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

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Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

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God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

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A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

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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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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

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There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

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God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

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When I am completely united to You, there will be no more sorrow or trials; entirely full of You, my life will be complete.

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We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

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Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

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Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

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The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

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It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.

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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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