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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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We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

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We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.

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Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

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Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

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It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word.

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The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

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Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth.

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If you comprehend, it is not God.

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Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

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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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Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

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Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

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In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

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O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

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A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix itself with anything, nor admit of dirtiness or pollution, but remains entirely, and in all things that are, free from defilement, admixture, and suffering.

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For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

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Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

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