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"Blessed are the peacemakers, theirs is the kingdom of heaven."

"The only area of strength for Satan's rulership is in our area of ignorance."

"Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author."

"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble."
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"How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII."

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

"A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done."

"Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."

"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."

"No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe."

"Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions."
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