Build a man a fire and he will be warm for a day set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.John Calvin
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
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Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments
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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
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Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.
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