Better to reign in hell than serve in heav’n.
JOHN MILTONWhen we speak of knowing God, it must be understood with reference to man’s limited powers of comprehension. God, as He really is, is far beyond man’s imagination, let alone understanding. God has revealed only so much of Himself as our minds can conceive and the weakness of our nature can bear.
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Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost.
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The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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God made thee perfect, not immutable.
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Where no hope is left, is left no fear.
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To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.
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Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep.
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Suffering for truth’s sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.
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The best apology against false accusers is silence.
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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.
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No institution which does not continually test its ideals, techniques and measure of accomplishment can claim real vitality.
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As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?
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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.
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There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.
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Believe and be confirmed.
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Nor love thy life, nor hate; but what thou livest, Live well; how long, or short, permit to Heaven.
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Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.
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Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
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A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
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Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.
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Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.
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Danger will wink on opportunity.
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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The best apology against false accusers is silence.
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To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
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