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“The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.”

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God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

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Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

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It is strange to reflect how much energy is thrown away in attempting to know the unknowable.

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There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift…

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To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

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There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift…

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The tillage of the soil occupies the vast majority of those who work for their own bread.

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Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.

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Yes, God is the end of your work, but He is the beginning also.

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This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.

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Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

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So then put away, relentlessly away, all thought of the results. You cannot control them.

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Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

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“I could see her will leaving and death seeping through her skin to skewer her soul.”

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The soul wanders in the dark, until it finds love. And so, wherever our love goes, there we find our soul.

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“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”

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All comedy comes from a dark place.

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It's a really dark, emotionally wrenching world that we've created on 'The Walking Dead.'

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I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...…

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I guess he'll have to figure out someday that he is supposed to have this dark side, that it is part of what it means to be human, to have the darkness just as much as the light- that in fact the dark parts make the light visible; without them, the light would disappear. But I guess he has to…

Anne Lamott

“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But the beast did not want to be tamed, for he was a beast and beasts care not for such things, and the girl died along with her dreams. From childhood's grave sprang a young woman, jaded…

Nenia Campbell

Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while I await injunctions from the light or the dark; I wait for shapeliness limned, or dissolution. Is paradise due or narrowly missed until another thousand years? I wait in a blue hour and faraway noise of…

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Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we cannot have it all, or want it all. In its abundance it survives our thirst. In the evening we come down to the shore to drink our fill, and sleep, while it flows through the regions…

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Let death bless me with you.

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