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"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
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Personal Development
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
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Personal Development
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
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Personal Development
"I learned that the purpose of the Twelve Steps is to do the will of God."
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Personal Development
"If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes."
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Personal Development
"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
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"We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God."
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Personal Development
"God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers."
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Personal Development
"Call on God, but row away from the rocks."
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"Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove."
Faith
"The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's."
People
"If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time."
Time
"It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
Opinion
"Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction."
God
"Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them."
Government
"A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it."
Government
"It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything."
People
"The soul is dyed with the color of its leisure thoughts."
Soul
"Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy."
Action
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