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"Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad."
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"With great diligent, pursue your dreams."

"God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners."

"God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners."

"A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness."

"Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power."

"The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23"

"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."
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"One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf."

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

"Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words."

"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."

"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free."
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