"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."

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"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real."

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"Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, “Yes!” He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God's way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"Instead of clinging to the only Lifeboat that can save, we have tossed overboard biblical truths in the name of [compromise], living on the edge of life, like the man who rides the parameter of a hurricane, daring it to sweep him away."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There's one thing you can say for air pollution, you get utterly amazing sunrises."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"There is always a path to our target, the problem is to discover it!"

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"Things past redress are now with me past care."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Hate is hostility."

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"Collect memories, they are your precious property."

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