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- For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and…
- After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things come if not…
- Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.
- The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow…
- I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.
- Wherefore all theology, when separated from Christ, is not only vain and confused, but is also mad, deceitful, and spurious; for, though the philosophers sometimes…
- A soul, therefore, when deprived of the Word of God, is given up unarmed to the devil for destruction
- Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want…
- We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen…
- Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God,…
- Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God,…
- No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move…
- Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites…
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- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
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