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"My life is ... a mystery which I do not attempt to really understand as though 1 were led by the hand in a night where I see nothing but can fully depend on the love and protection of Him who guides me."
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"Reveal to the people and make them experience God first before you make them church members."

"You need to guard the city before God could protect it for you."

"If God lives in you and you have a relationship with Him, He will protect you."

"The world will always try to lure us away so that it can infect us with sin."

"There is no sin, no crime, no evil, God cannot forgive."

"If a person is outside the sin zone, the devil is powerless against him."

"The devil is the god of this planet and he does anything he wants to the people therein."
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"In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence."


"All theology is a kind of birthday. Each one who is born Comes into the world as a question For which old answers Are not sufficient."


"The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in preference to the joys of union with God, the Lord turned suffering itself into a way by which man could come to the perfect knowledge of God."


"No one can find God without having first been found by Him. A monk is a man who seeks God because he has been found by God."


"To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us - and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference."


"The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them."


"Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward."
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