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"The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world."

"The leadings of the Holy Spirit will help you to achieve your goals in the quickest way."

"God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out air-quality. He knew it already. It was I who did. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the day all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize that fact was to knock it down."

"We need to remember not to give the devil a chance and fall away from God's grace."

"It is a special privilege and calling to live in two millenniums."

"God knows everything that happened in your life."

"We call ourselves Protestants, but we have totally departed from the teachings of the early Protestants. Martin Luther, John Wesley and John Calvin would turn in their graves, if they hear the kind of teachings we are now feeding the people of God with."
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"And yet I have known the sea too long to believe in its respect for decency. An elemental force is ruthlessly frank."

"I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral."

"How can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him into by the way of solitude--utter solitude without a policeman--by the way of silence--utter silence, where no warning voice of a kind neighbour can be heard whispering of public opinion? These little things make all the great difference. When they are gone you must fall back upon your own innate strength, upon your own capacity for faithfulness."

"It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream-alone..."

"It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing."

"Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!"

"Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life."

"Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end."
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