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For my sake, the entire world was created.

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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
Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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Feelings Gratitude World
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
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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Believe Creation Prayer
As man acts, God reacts.
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Act God Man React
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
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
The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.
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Eye Hands Men
I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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Doors Going Out
There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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God Men Rooms
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
Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Manifestation Name Pleasure
From every human being there rises a light.
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Being There Humans Light
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
Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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Loses Losing Yourself
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

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