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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich."

"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."

"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."

"I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues."

"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."

"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"The verdict of the world is conclusive."

"Do not expect the world to look bright, if you habitually wear gray-brown glasses."
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"So I see that Christianity in believing in a Creator pulls together more facts, data, inner experience and ability than any mechanistic view could hold for me."

"Identity in the form of continuity of personality is an extremely important characteristic of the individual."

"Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective."

"Christianity stands or falls as a living program, a way of life, made concrete in the life of man by the life of God through the life of the concretely living Christ."

"That a society controls, to a greater or lesser extent, the behavior of its members is a universal; but the methods, the particulars of that control, vary from one culture to another."

"Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements."

"Acceptance of the power of God in one's life lays the groundwork for personal commitment to both science and Christianity, which so often have been in conflict."

"With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of all facts."
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