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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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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
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
The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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Aspect Feelings Worship
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
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
As man acts, God reacts.
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Act God Man React
From every human being there rises a light.
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Being There Humans Light
Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Manifestation Name Pleasure
To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Dirty Friend Hesitate
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
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
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Curriculum Self Esteem Unique
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
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
Everything above and below is one unity.
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Above Below Unity
For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
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Accomplishment Common 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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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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