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"If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they've been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we're headed right back toward The Virtues."
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"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
"So our virtuesLie in the interpretation of the time:And power, unto itself most commendable,Hath not a tomb so evident as a chairTo extol what it hath done.One fire drives out one fire; one nail, one nail;Rights by rights falter, strengths by strengths do fail."
"Three quarters of faith is boldness. Three quarters of wisdom is intelligence. Three quarters of love is kindness."
"Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge."
"One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions."
"Great is the person who does good always, in sickness and in health, in riches and in poverty."
"Delay gratification is what will give us patience and long suffering."
"Train yourself by blessing those who treat you badly and you will take on the nature of God."
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"When some one mortal yet eternal human merely being relying on precisely nothing but the audacious love of his Maker, calls on Him to part the Heavens, well, we are undone."
"Truth, with a capital T, was swapped for Fact with a capital F, then both lower-cased -facts the new trues."
"They think that if they were allowed to do anything they desired, they would be satisfied and the more desires the better. But all desires divorced from The Desire eventually collapse in on themselves."
"As a rule, Americans are big on that word 'choice and some souls can be captured simply by dangling before the creature a continual, lifelong supply of things from which to choose."
"But here I'd like to add to what the Tempter's Manual suggests. Depression, at its finest, is not a Future that they cannot hopefully construct, nor a shamed Past that hounds them, but an agonizing Present that they cannot escape. We want to disable their Present so that they cannot use it to look Heavenward."
"Courtesy, not control, that was His means. Just as He requested the stars to sing and they leapt into bright being, so request was to be their rule over bird and beast, seas and trees, mountains and moons and all the dancing distances between the heavenlies filled with the unending song of Creation."
"Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form."
"And so, wish becomes pang; the crave, an ache; pleasure, pain. Losing all its pleasure, anticipation cuts the opposite direction and becomes merely a constant, painful reminder of what they've lost, forever."
"I shouldn't need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis was stirring in his skull, and you didn't think to stop it?"
"Their guilt plus their repentance should have equalled forgiveness. But they don't feel forgiven, so they failed, which makes them feel guilty, which was why they repented in the first place, so they're stuck right where they started: Guilty."
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