Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Everything above and below is one unity.
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As man acts, God reacts.
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To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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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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Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.
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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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There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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He who is full of joy is full of love.
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Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.
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I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
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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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