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- Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.
- We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.
- The more you say, the less people remember.
- Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies
- Listen less to your own thoughts and more to God's thoughts.
- You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God…
- That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.
- There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.
- When we are truly in this interior simplicity our whole appearance is franker, more natural. This true simplicity. . . makes us conscious of a…
- All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.
- All wars are civil wars because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in…
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