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Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

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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
Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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Loses Losing Yourself
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
Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
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Heaven Stories Thrones
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
For my sake, the entire world was created.
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Entire Sake World
Fear builds walls to bar the light.
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Bars Light Wall
Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Manifestation Name Pleasure
The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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Aspect Feelings Worship
The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.
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Manifestation Men Revelation
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 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
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
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
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Neighbor Roots Unity
We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.
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Capacity Should Understanding

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