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"I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you saw further and clearer than I, and you opened the seas before my ship, whose track led me across the waters to a place I had never dreamed of, and which you were even then preparing to be my rescue and my shelter and my home."

"Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise."

"You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright."

"Holy Spirit convicts us when we do something wrong, He guides us back to the right path."

"You can start looking for your purpose in life after you have identify who you are."
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"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."


"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."


"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."


"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."
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