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"Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle."

"Your greatest strength is in your ability to remain still."

"It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years."

"Meditation becomes easier if you drop all your ambitions and desires."

"You can believe whatever you will, as long as you realize: it was your decision!"

"Enjoy the contented silence."

"There were moments, of course. Those small spaces in time, too soon gone, when everything seems to stand still, and existence is balanced on a perfect point, like the moment of change between the dark and the light, and when both and neither surround you."
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"Christianity is not an accretion, it is not something added. It is a new total outlook which is satisfied with nothing less than penetration to the furthest corners of the mind and the understanding."

"As we cast our frightened eyes around for something that is real and true and enduring, we are turning once more to this ancient Book [the Bible] that has given consolation, comfort, and salvation to millions in the centuries past."

"There are Christians who have never really learned the biblical truth of separation: separation from unclean thoughts and unclean habits."

"Christians are becoming disengaged in following the Scripture that tells us not to conform to the world's system."

"A great problem in America is that we have an anemic and watered-down Christianity that has produced an anemic, watered-down, and spineless Christian who is not willing to stand up and be counted on every issue."

"The Bible is the constant fountain for faith, conduct, and inspiration from which we drink daily."

"The [Bible's] message is concerned with earth dwellers, their origin, the reason for their existence, the cause of their misery, and the plan of redemption for a fallen race."

"Each of us has our reference point and as a Christian the reference point by which I measure my life and thought is the Bible."
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