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I understood. I have understood. I do understand.

Isaac Newton

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.
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Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.
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Friendship Truth
The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.
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Continent Meditation Reading Struggle
Christ comes as a thief in the night, & it is not for us to know the times & seasons which God hath put into his own breast.
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Breast God Night Season Thief Time
What we know is a drop, what we don’t know is an ocean.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
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Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
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Amount Atheist Chance Distance Earth Happen Heat Light Look Receive Solar System Sun
No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.
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I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
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Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses.
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I do not think that this [the universe] can be explained only by natural causes, and are forced to impute to the wisdom and ingenuity of an intelligent.
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We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
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I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.
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Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
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