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"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."
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"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
"We often bow down to our feelings without realizing how fickle and unreliable they are."
"Start to exercise a firm control over what influences your experiences before situations control you."
"Do your emotions influence You or are You influenced by your emotions?"
"It is much easier to concentrate the mind on external things, than to concentrate on the mind itself. For example, a Neuroscientist can be the smartest man (or woman) on earth in his understanding of the human mind. He may know all the neurochemical changes underlying an outrageous behavior of a person. But when he gets mad himself, very little of his own scientific intellect would actually come in handy for him to control his rage. The virtue of self-control is a skill, which requires practice, regardless of all the neurobiological expertise in the world."
"God in His perfect wisdom gave you power to control only one thing in the entire universe, and that is you."
"If I could mark clearly, convincingly and consistently what was good for me and also what was bad-if I could say yes and also no, as if it were the law-it would become my law."
"He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."
"The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile."
"Discipline your sexuality for it has the proclivity to cause a productivity that can influence now and posterity."
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"I have covenanted with my Lord that He should not send visions, or dreams or even angels! I am content with this gift of the Scriptures, which teaches and supplies all that is necessary both for this life and that which is to come."
"Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you may do by inveighing against the laws and lawgivers, and yet at the same time observing these laws with the weak, lest they be offended, until they shall themselves recognize the tyranny, and understand their own liberty."
"Faith is a living and unshakable confidence a belief in the grace of God so assured that a man would die a thousand deaths for its sake."
"The Church of Rome, formerly the most holy of all Churches, has become the most lawless den of thieves, the most shameless of all brothels, the very kingdom of sin, death, and hell; so that not even antichrist, if he were to come, could devise any addition to its wickedness."
"Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback set it up on one side and it tumbles over on the other."
"The heart overflows with gladness, and leaps and dances for the joy it has found in God. In this experience the Holy Spirit is active, and has taught us in the flash of a moment the deep secret of joy. You will have as much joy and laughter in life as you have faith in God."
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