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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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Fear builds walls to bar the light.
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Bars Light Wall
Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Manifestation Name Pleasure
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
To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Dirty Friend Hesitate
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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Redemption Remembrance Secret
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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Mean Opportunity People
I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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Doors Going Out
Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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Loses Losing Yourself
He who is full of joy is full of love.
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Build Joy Light
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
The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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Aspect Feelings Worship
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
As man acts, God reacts.
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Act God Man React
Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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Feelings Gratitude World
For my sake, the entire world was created.
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Entire Sake 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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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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