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

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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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Clean Guilty May
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
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
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
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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Redemption Remembrance Secret
The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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Aspect Feelings Worship
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
He who is full of joy is full of love.
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Build Joy Light
I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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Doors Going Out
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
Everything above and below is one unity.
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Above Below Unity
From every human being there rises a light.
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Being There Humans Light
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
Fear builds walls to bar the light.
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Bars Light Wall
For my sake, the entire world was created.
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Entire Sake World

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