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He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

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Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

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Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek ...more

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Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

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Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

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It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.

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Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

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It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.

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Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.

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Finally, let them recognise that there are two kinds of people one can call reasonable; those who serve God with all their heart because they know Him...more

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The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jes...more

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Eloquence.— We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true.