American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we’ve never known what to do with this part of the Bible.
BILL VAUGHANAristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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The pretender sees no one but himself, Because he has the veil of conceit in front; If he were endowed with a God discerning eye, He would see that no one is weaker than himself.
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When a woman talks, she just wants to be heard.
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Do not expect too much of the end of the world.
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There’s something about getting up at 5 a.m., feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a lifelong respect for the price of butter and eggs.
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He (God) doesn’t need me, but He desires me.
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The world could not long ignore a holy church. The church is not despised because it is holy: it is despised because it is not holy enough.
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It’s never safe to be nostalgic about something until you’re absolutely certain there’s no chance of its coming back
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Aristocracy has three successive ages. First superiority s, then privileges and finally vanities. Having passed from the first, it degenerates in the second and dies in the third.
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A third, of more extensive learning, ran To Sir George Villiers’ Ghost, and Mrs. Veal; Of sheeted Spectres spoke with shorten’d breath, And thrice he quoted Drelincourt on Death.
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Perhaps the crime situation would be improved if we could get more cops off television and onto the streets.
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An indefinable something is to be done, in a way nobody knows how, at a time nobody knows when, that will accomplish nobody knows what.
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Material civilization, nay, even luxury, is necessary to create work for the poor. Bread! Bread! I do not believe in a God who cannot give me bread here, giving me eternal bliss in heaven!
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When it is not necessary to amend the Constitution, it is necessary not to amend the Constitution.
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One of the most gracious dispensations of God concerning His saints is their lovely unawareness of sanctity. The nearer they move to Him, the more conscious are they of sin.
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There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
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