What man or creature desires to learn and to know the secret counsel and will of God - desires nothing else but what Adam did and the evil spirit.
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I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street.Max Muller
Although created out of nothing, that is, through and out of God, he cannot of his own power resolve himself back into this nothingness.
Max Muller
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
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Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
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That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.
Max Muller
Every life has its years in which one progresses as on a tedious and dusty street of poplars, without caring to know where he is.
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