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In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest…
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To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise, though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because…
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In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.
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God is the ultimate source of all power. All human power is therefore derived, limited, unstable and transient.
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Calling is not only a matter of being and doing what we are but also of becoming what we are not yet…
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If ours is an examined faith, we should be unafraid to doubt....There is no believing without some doubting, and believing is all…
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At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that…
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The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should…
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The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can…
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If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises…
— Thomas Jefferson
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One of my friends, reading the title of these lectures [The Whence and Whither of Man] said: "Of man's origin you know…
— John M. Tyler
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Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good…
— Edmund Burke
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The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back…
— Albert Camus
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A prince, therefore, must not mind incurring the charge of cruelty for the purpose of keeping his subjects united and confident; for,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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