Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.
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Love endures in adversity, is moderate in prosperity; brave under harsh sufferings, cheerful in good works; utterly reliable in temptation, utterly open-handed in hospitality; as happy as can be among true brothers and sisters, as patient as you can get among the false one’s.
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God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.
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Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
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Put no faith in salvation through the political order.
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Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
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When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
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If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
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Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
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Our hearts have been made for you, O God, and they shall never rest until they rest in you.
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God has promised forgiveness to your repentance, but He has not promised tomorrow to your procrastination.
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The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
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Miracles are not contrary to nature but only contrary to what we know about nature.
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