If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.
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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, ''It is talking to me, and about me.''
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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The most terrible fight is not when there is one opinion against another, the most terrible is when two men say the same thing -- and fight about the interpretation, and this interpretation involves a difference of quality.
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The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.
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