"As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer."

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"As artists give themselves to their models, and poets to their classical pursuits, so must we addict ourselves to prayer."

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"There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."

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"There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't."

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"A universe with a God would look quite different from a universe without one. A physics, a biology where there is a God is bound to look different. So the most basic claims of religion are scientific. Religion is a scientific theory."

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"The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes."

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"Keep your hope in the Lord."

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"Martin Luther used to say temptation is the best teacher for a minister."

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"Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around him till he occupies his true place in relation to God. When he serves God, he has reached that point where he doth serve himself best, and enjoys himself most. It is man's honour, it is man's joy, it is man's heaven, to live unto God."

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"This woman gained comfort in her misery by thinking GREAT THOUGHTS OF CHRIST."

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"When grace has won the day, the worldling seeks the world to come."

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"Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings.How diligently they read them!Here they find their law and profits,their judges and chronicles,their epistles and revelations."

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"Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins. A living God must be served in a living way."

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"Jesus does not cherish an offense, loving us as well after the offense as before it."

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"Every time a believer mounts from this earth to paradise, it is an answer to Christ's prayer. A good old divine remarks, "Many times Jesus and His people pull against one another in prayer. You bend your knee in prayer and say 'Father, I will that Thy saints be with me where I am'; Christ says, 'Father, I will that they also, whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am."

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