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Love loves unto purity. Love has ever in view the absolute loveliness of that which it beholds. Therefore all that is not beautiful in the beloved, al...more

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I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

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Heed not thy feeling. Do thy work.

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No gift unrecognized as coming from God is at its own best: therefore many things that God would gladly give us, things even that we need because we a...more

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With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-spirit may rush in and shakeThe darkness out of me, ...more

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We must remember that God is not occupied with a grand toy of worlds and suns and planets, of attractions and repulsions, of agglomerations and crysta...more

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The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self, where we mope and mow, striking sparks, and rubbing phosphorescences out of the ...more

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One of my greatest difficulties in consenting to think of religion was that I thought I should have to give up my beautiful thoughts and my love for t...more

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To cease to wonder is to fall plumb-down from the childlike to the commonplace—the most undivine of all moods intellectual. Our nature can never be at...more

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The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him who makes it, and...more

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To be unable to bear disapproval was an unworthy weakness. But in her case it came nowise of the pride which blame stirs to resentment, but altogether...more

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There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end

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For others, as for ourselves, we must trust him. If we could thoroughly understand anything, that would be enough to prove it undivine; and that which...more

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Afflictions are but the shadow of His wings.

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O Lord, I have been talking to the people;Thought's wheels have round me whirled a fiery zoneAnd the recoil of my word's airy rippleMy heart unheedful...more