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Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.

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Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Manifestation Name Pleasure
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
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
I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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Doors Going Out
Everything above and below is one unity.
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Above Below Unity
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
From every human being there rises a light.
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Being There Humans Light
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
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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Believe Creation Prayer
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
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
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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Redemption Remembrance Secret
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
Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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Feelings Gratitude World
The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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Aspect Feelings Worship
There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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God Men Rooms

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