You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.
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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.George MacDonald
How often we look upon God as our last and feeblest resource We go to Him because we have nowhere else to go. And then we learn that the storms of life have driven us, not upon the rocks, but into the desired haven.
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Really what they told us today is that number 7 should be running for the next couple of years.
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To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
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It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.
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Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.
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