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To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.

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For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
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Accomplishment Common Understanding
From every human being there rises a light.
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Being There Humans Light
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
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Curriculum Self Esteem Unique
A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.
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Clean Guilty May
There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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God Men Rooms
As man acts, God reacts.
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Act God Man React
Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering – you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.
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Imperfection Men Mirrors
If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.
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Evil Man Order
Mind is the foundation of man.
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Foundation Man Mind
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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Believe Creation Prayer
Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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Loses Losing Yourself
People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.
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Mean Opportunity People
To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Dirty Friend Hesitate
Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Manifestation Name Pleasure
When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.
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Father Son Taken
If the Bible didn’t show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
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Hero might Weakness

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