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“Every time we say, ‘I believe in the Holy Spirit’ we mean that we believe there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it” (J.B. Phillips).
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“Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those that I do understand” (Mark Twain.”
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“Wonder is the basis of worship” (Thomas Carlyle).
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“Be not fretful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares” (Holy Bible).
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“You can mold a mannerism, but you must chisel a character” (Anonymous).
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“Let us rejoice in the Truth, wherever we find its lamp burning” (Albert Schweitzer).
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“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you” (C. S. Lewis).
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“Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs” (Theodore Roosevelt).
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“And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” (John 8:32; NASV).
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“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you” (C. S. Lewis).
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“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens” (Charles Morgan).
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“Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence” (Henri Frederic Ariel).
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“My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there” (Charles F. Kettering).
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“Theology is but our ideas if truth classified and arranged” (Henry Ward Beecher).
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“Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better” (Andre Gide).
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“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning” (Psalm 30:5; NKJV).
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“The language of friendship is not words but meanings” (Henry David Thoreau).
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“O Lord, help us to be masters of ourselves, that we may be servants of others” (Alexander Paterson).
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“I find that doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans” (George Mac Donald).
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“To fear God is to stand in awe of Him; to be afraid of God is to run away from Him” (Carroll E. Simcox).
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“Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations” (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe).
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“If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel which you believe, but yourself” (Augustine of Hippo).
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“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us” (Thomas Paine).
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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook” (William James).
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“Few are chosen, by the good reason that few choose themselves” (Aldous Huxley).
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“A man’s feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world” (George Santayana).
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“He is invited to great things who receives small things greatly” (Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus).
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“Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you” (Seneca).
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“My interest is in the future, because I am going to spend the rest of my life there” (Charles F. Kettering).
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“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you” (C. S. Lewis).
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“I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything let me not refuse to do the something that I can do” (Edward Everett Hale).
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“They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death is but a crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still” (William Penn).
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“The Spirit of God first imparts love; he next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in many of our churches” (Dwight L. Moody).
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“The Gospels do not explain the resurrection; the resurrection explains the Gospels. Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith; it is the Christian faith” (J. S. Whale).
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“I stick by Almighty God–He alone is, all else is death. Don’t call this dying; I am just entering upon life” (Henry James, Sr.).
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“The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on” (Josiah Gilbert Holland).
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“He is invited to great things who receives small things greatly” (Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus).
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“Let us rejoice in the Truth, wherever we find its lamp burning” (Albert Schweitzer).
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“God has given us two hands — one for receiving and the other for giving” (Billy Graham).
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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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“If the ‘once-born’ temperament constitutes the ballast of the church, the ‘twice-born’ is, under God, its motive power.”
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“Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself” (Charles H. Spurgeon).
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“It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak, another to hear” (Henry David Thoreau).
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“If you ask God to give you a special message for the opening year, one that will be made seasonal and real in every exigency of the unknown future, you will be surprised how faithfully He will fulfill His Word, and how fittingly the Holy Spirit will speak to you of things to come, and anticipate the real needs and exigencies of your life” (A. W. Tozer).
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“Every Christian must be Christ Himself” (Angelus Silesius).
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“No revolution that has ever taken place in society can be compared to that which can be produced by the words of Jesus Christ” (Mark Hopkins).
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“I think that the purpose and cause of the Incarnation was that God might illuminate the world by His wisdom and excite to the love of Himself” (Peter Abelard).
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“He became what we are that He might make us what He is” (Athanasius of Alexandria).
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In order that the body of Christ might be shown to be a real body, He was born of a woman; but in order that His Godhead might be made clear He was born of a virgin” (Thomas Aquinas).
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“Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity” (William Ellery Channing).
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“Don’t believe the world owes you a thing; the world owes you nothing — it was here first” (Robert Jones Burdette).
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“How rarely we weigh our neighbor in the same balance in which we weigh ourselves!” (Thomas A. Kempis).
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“Childhood reveals tendencies. Youth develops personality. Maturity establishes character”. (Hubert Van Zeller).
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“The Gospels do not explain the resurrection; the resurrection explains the Gospels. Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith; it is the Christian faith” (J. S. Whale).
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“The life of faith does not earn eternal life; it is eternal life. And Christ is its vehicle” (William Temple).
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“Train the child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself” (Charles H. Spuregon).
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science” (Albert Einstein).
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“Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over, and showing it principally in one spot” (Josh Billings).
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“I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered” (Jean Ingelow).
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“What you bring away from the Bible depends to some extent on what you carry to it” (Oliver Wendell Holmes).
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“Before Christ sent the church into the world He spent the Spirit into the church. The same order must be observed today” (John R. W. Stott).
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“The church of Christ is not an institution; it is a new life with Christ and in Christ, guided by the Holy Spirit” (Sergius Gulgakov).
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“Everything is good when it leaves the hands of the Creator, everything degenerates in the hands of man” (Jean Jacques Rousseau).
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“There is nothing that makes us love a man so much as praying for him” (William Law).
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“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give” (Winston Churchill).
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“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better” (Andre Gide).
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“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else” (James M. Barrie).
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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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“Christianity offers to make men free; it never promises to make them independent” (William Ralph Inge).
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“The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me” (Martin Luther).
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“To have found God is not an end in itself but a beginning” (Franz Rosenzweig).
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“Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you” (Seneca).
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“Never undertake anything for which you wouldn’t have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven” (Georg Christian Lichtenberg).
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“Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ” (St. Jerome).
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“It is only through the mystery of self-sacrifice that a man may find himself anew” (Carl G. Jung).
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“The Gospels do not explain the resurrection; the resurrection explains the Gospels. Belief in the resurrection is not an appendage to the Christian faith; it is the Christian faith” (J. S. Whale).
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“He that will have his son to have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son” (John Locke).
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“Before Christ sent the church into the world, He sent the Spirit into the church. The same order must be observed today” (John R. W. Stott).
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“Let us rejoice in the Truth, wherever we find its lamp burning” (Albert Schweitzer).
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“All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it” (Gilbert Keith Chesterton).
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“Flattery corrupts both the giver and the receiver” (Edmund Burke).
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“Pray not for lighter burdens but for stronger backs” (Theodore Roosevelt).
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“If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don’t, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself” (Augustine of Hippo).
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“A little philosophy inclineth a man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringers men’s minds about to religion” (Francis Bacon).
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“The transition from the pleasure-principle to the reality-principle is one of the most important advances in the development of the ego” (Sigmund Freud).
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“Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful” (Proverbs 27:6).
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“Each man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends” (Henry Ward Beecher).
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“Childhood reveals tendencies. Youth develops personality. Maturity establishes character” (Hubert Van Zeller).
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“He became what we are that He might make us what He is” (Athanasius of Alexandria).
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“No longer do the Magi bring presents to Fire and the Sun; for this Child made Sun and Fire” (The Greek Anthology).
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“The strength of a man’s virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts” (Blaise Pascal).
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“Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower” (Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe).
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“Sow a thought, and you reap an act; so an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny” (Anonymous).
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“The life of faith does not earn eternal life, it is eternal life. And Christ is its vehicle” (William Temple).
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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook” (William James).
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“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into man” (Thomas Hardy).
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“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter. Fear God, and keep His commandments; for this is the whole duty of man” (Ecclesiastes 12:13).
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“After silence that which comes nearest the inexpressible is music” (Aldous Huxley).
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“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject” (Winston Churchill).
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“I find that doing the will of God leaves me no time for disputing about His plans” (George Mac Donald).
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“Persons are fine things, but they cost too much! for thee I must pay me” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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“God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves” (Dwight L. Moody).
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science” (Albert Einstein).
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“You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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“The point of having an open mind, like having an open mouth, is to close it on something solid” (Gilbert Keith Chesterton).
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“The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook” (William James).
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“To have found God is not an end in itself but a beginning” (Franz Rosenzweig).
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“The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall” (Francis Bacon).
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“It is sad not to be loved, but it is much sadder not to be able to love” (Miguel De Unamuno).
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“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy” (William Blake).
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“Does God seem far away? Guess who moved” (Anonymous).
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“The chief end of man is to glorify God, and to enjoy Him forever” (Westminister Catechism).
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“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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“A great many people are trying to make peace, but that has already been done. God has not left it for us to do; all we have to do is enter into it” (Dwight L. Moody).
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“We must first make up our minds about Christ before coming to conclusions about the miracles attributed to Him” (F. F. Bruce).
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“Live with men as if God saw you; converse with God as if men heard you” (Seneca).
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“If the average person was to give commensurable kicking to the one responsible for most of his troubles, he couldn’t sit down for a week” (Bud Nelson).
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“The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on” (Josiah Gilbert Holland).
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“The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold on me” (Martin Luther).
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“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him” (Thomas Hardy).
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“A man’s body is remarkably sensitive. Pat him on the back and his head swells” (Anonymous).
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“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing” (Elbert Hubbard).
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“Fear God, and where you go men will think they walk in hallowed cathedrals” (Ralph Waldo Emerson).
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“I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within” (Socrates).
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“A friend is one who comes in when the whole world has gone out” (Anonymous).
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“Prosperity is only an instrument to be used; not a deity to be worshipped” (Calvin Coolidge).
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“The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into man” (Thomas Hardy).
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“Jesus was crucified not in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves” (George F. MacLeod).
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courages is also what it takes to sit down and listen” (Anonymous).
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“If you believe in the Gospel what you like, and reject what you don’t like, it is not the Gospel that you believe, but yourself” (Augustine Of Hippo).
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“Every time we say, “I believe in the Holy Spirit,” we mean that we believe there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it” (J. B. Phillips).
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“Do everything as though success depended on you alone, but expect nothing save from God” (Ignatius Loyola).